On Monday 24 January 2005 12:02 am, der.hans kindly wrote:
> Am 23. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Siri Amrit Kaur so:
>
> moin, moin Siri,
>
> thanks for the recommendations. The live CD to install mechanism is
> a great tool.
>
> How do the 3 of them stack up with updates after the install?
>
> That's the realy fall down of Knoppix. Updating the system after
> the install is problematic at best :(.
>
I believe Ubuntu has it's own repository of packages and a regular
release cycle. The user can also use the Debian repositories as well.
I'm trying to find out for certain how SimplyMepis is updated. I think
Warren has set up a repository of tested packages for subscribers,
but people can also use the Debian repositories as well. I don't know
if SimplyMepis is based on Sarge or Sid though. Does anybody on this
list know?
Regarding updating PCLOS, from the Distrowatch Dec. 20 newsletter (I
highly recommend this distro if the user has 256+ of RAM):
A new "Preview" version of PCLinuxOS hit the BitTorrent servers and
download mirrors over the weekend. This was interesting news,
especially because many consider PCLinuxOS to be one of the best
Linux distributions for novice users. It was originally based on
Mandrakelinux, but "Texstar", the distribution's lead developer,
maintains many RPM packages independently and keeps most major
components up-to-date. PCLinuxOS is an attempt to cure some of the
ills of Mandrakelinux proper - it is free in every sense of the word,
comes pre-configured with browser plugins, Java, NVIDIA driver, and
multimedia support, and is very easy to keep up-to-date by retrieving
new packages from one of the PCLinuxOS repositories. It also includes
some of the Mandrakelinux utilities, such as Mandrake Control Centre
(renamed to Master Control Centre). However, urpmi has been
completely replaced with apt-get.
One of the nice things about PCLinuxOS (it shares this quality with
MEPIS Linux) is that it also functions as a live CD. Users can
download and boot the CD straight into a graphical environment with
KDE (login as guest, with password "guest"), then, if they enjoy the
experience, install it to a hard disk with a simple graphical
installer. Synaptic is the preferred way to manage RPM packages. This
powerful graphical utility not only provides ways to retrieve all the
latest security updates, it also makes installing and uninstalling
extra packages (not included on the CD, e.g. GNOME 2.8) an easy and
painless task.
Although still labelled as a "development" release, PCLinuxOS has now
matured to the point that it can be safely considered as a stable,
quality distribution, perhaps one of the best-kept secrets of the
Linux distribution world. Download and try it out - you are likely to
be pleasantly surprised!
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