From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au
Bobbie Sellers Wrote in message:
> On 07/27/2016 05:43 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> On 07/20/2016 03:47 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> Hi Typers and readers,
>>>
>>> Just tried it out.
>>> Will install to my test setup and have more information later this
>>> week.
>>>
>>> Current ranking of snapshots and previews of forks of Mandriva.
>>> PCLOS leads the field no systemd
>>> Open Mandriva Release Candidate is ahead of
>>> Mageia 6 snapshots presently lagging and I have trouble
>>> after doing updates in booting.
>>>
>>> PCLinuxOS 2016.07 and Magiea 6 latest snapshot were installed
>>> along with Windows 7 on a Dell E6420. All booted but Mageia 6 failed
>>> after recent updates.
>>>
>>> I will be removing Mageia to make room for the Open Mandriva install.
>>>
>>> bliss
>>
>> Got OpenMandrive 3.0 RC1 installed and did a little work presently
>> doing updates.
>> I have to say these guy are not too bright. Calling this release
>> Einsteinium is sort of dumb because that is a transuranic
>> element with a rather short half-life. Some isotopes of einsteinium
>> have a half-life of over a year but the short-lived isotope is down
>> to <40 days.
>> It decays so fast that it gives off blue light.
>> Poisonous and highly radioactive is just the name you want
>> to give to a new release.
>> The installer looks better than the old installer but you have
>> to have done some installing to get thru it unscathed. The partitioning
>> part offers the usual choices but in a rather new way.
>> I gave the root about 25 GiB and home about 40 GiB.
>> I did about 40 update then the shield reappeared and I hit update
>> again and over 60 updates including a later version. The
>> shield is an icon shaped like a shield with a checkmark that shows
>> up in the system tray.
>> The widgets are still short of the ones we are used to in
>> KDE's Plasma 4, date and time can not be copied from the digital
>> clock.
>
> Sorry but I hit "send" a bit early.
>
> Here is some more nonsense
> Pager widget for the Virtual desktops is put on the Default task bar
> and cannot be moved without removing it. Then it appeared
> in the widget menu and could be installed. The Pager configuration and
> the Virtual Desktop menu have been separated, though the VD menu
> actually sets up the rows for the pager.
> I went and tried to download more Widgets but was unable to get
> the one I was interested in. Luna which shows the Moon phases is not out
> yet.
> I found System Settings eventually and it has a boot menu section
> which eventually gets to the GRUB2 menu but I did not want to
> change it.
> The logon menu is incomplete, lacking sensible options that
> let the names of users be concealed.
> It also has an item for systemd configuration on that menu which
> is as yet unexplored.
> On that Dell E6420 I have installed and am running from time
> to time, PCLinuxOS 2016.03, PCLOS 2016.07 and Open Mandriva 3.0RC-6
> as I find the time to fork around with it.
>
> I am posting from my present work environment PCLinuxOS 2016.03
> which is updated whenever the opportunity is presented on my HP Pavilion.
>
> bliss
>
There is a review of PCL 2016.03 in the LinuxFormat mag I picked
up today.
It points out that PCLis one of the few distros that haven't
moved from
SystemV to systemd.
Most of the mag is taken up with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, but there is an
article
about Vulkan, the proposed replacement for OpenGL.
Doug.
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