XPost: alt.os.linux.mandrake, alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   
   From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   	Hi again typers and readers,   
   	This the response I put on Distrowatch Weekly today   
   because they failed in the their review of Rolling Releases   
   to included any mention of PCLinux OS.   
      
   Since the Weekly did not hre is my little report.   
   I will say that you can encounter some problems   
   at various installation points but always found   
   a work-around.   
      
   I am running a fully updated PCLinux OS 2016.03   
   on my Pavilion notebook with 12 Gigabytes of RAM   
   and an AMD A10 4 core machine.   
      
   The kernel updates have been coming thru very quickly,   
   One had a <90 minute interval from the previous release.   
   Currently on the Pavilion have 4.8.4-pclos1 with KDE's   
   Plasma 4,14.18   
   Updates to Plasma (about 40) came down last week.   
      
   On my salvaged Dell E6420 I have a useless Windows 7,   
   the main control for the rest of the system is again PCLOS 2016.03   
   again fully updated and using kernel 4.8.5,   
      
   There is a preview version of PCLinuxOS 2019.07 with KDE's   
   Plasma 5 running kernel 4.8.5, Updates are coming thru   
   pretty fast but Plasma 5 remains far from the smoothness and   
   convenience of Plasma 4, with only slight improvements to   
   a few points and lots of missing plugins.   
      
   On the same machine I have a Ubuntu Studio install that I haven't   
   looked at much because the interface in 16.04.1 turns me off.   
      
   Finally a blast from the past, pclos-babymate-2015.10 is   
   updated to kernel 4.1.26 and has a older version of Mate   
   the was appealing running live as it looked a lot like my   
   old Amiga. The unique thing in these days of simplified   
   releases is that the pclos-babymate-2015.10.iso is about   
   490 Megabytes. Of course they get to that size by   
   leaving out tools like Firefox and Thunderbird that   
   require more space.   
      
   I started Linux with Mandriva 2006 and updated every   
   year until 2011 when the late release was broken,   
   I love the drakxtools which is why I went to Mageia 4.1   
   and Mageia 5 when PCLOS had no way to deal with   
   the UEFI systems on the Pavilion except by removing   
   Windows installation. As soon as I heard via Distrowatch   
   in a tiny note that PCLOS 2016.03 was out and could deal   
   with UEFI I started trying it again and by the second month   
   had moved across from Mageia 5 to PCLinux OS.   
      
   I have checked out each release of Open Mandriva and   
   been unimpressed even when it worked on my hardware.   
      
   Truely Rolling releases need an system duplication so that   
   if and when an update fails a quick reboot will take you back   
   to the latest operating version. Failing that do those backups.   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
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