From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   Aragorn  Wrote in message:   
   > On Friday 27 January 2017 00:42, Vince Coen conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
   >   
   >> Hello Aragorn!   
   >>   
   >> Thursday January 26 2017 13:40, Aragorn wrote to All:   
   >>   
   >>  > On Thursday 26 January 2017 06:38, Doug Laidlaw conveyed the   
   >>  > following   
   >>  >  to alt.os.linux.mandrake...   
   >>   
   >>  >> Aragorn  Wrote in message:   
   >>  >>   
   >>  >>> I've set the follow-up to the PCLOS and Mandriva groups, because   
   >>  >>> the Mandrake group has been dead in the water for many, many   
   >>  >>> years already. ;)   
   >>  >>>   
   >>  >>> [...]   
   >>  >>>   
   >>  >>> I'm still running (64-bit) PCLinuxOS 2014.04 here, with KDE   
   >>  >>> Plasma 4.14.18. ;)   
   >>  >>   
   >>  >>  I have just downloaded the "community" Xfce edition of   
   >>  >> PCLinuxOS-2016.07.  It has a well-chosen selection of tools   
   >>  >> and applications.   
   >>   
   >>  > Don't forget to install "man".  PCLOS does not install it by   
   >>  > default, albeit that it does install GNU info instead. ;)   
   >>   
   >> Any other cons on using it ?   
   >   
   > Not really, no.  What's not installed can be downloaded from the   
   > repository. ;)   
   >   
   > PCLinuxOS 2014.04 is working quite well here at my end.  Sure, there are   
   > still a few bugs here and there in Plasma 4, but in overall, I'm quite   
   > satisfied with it.   
   >   
   > It's not the first time I give PCLinuxOS a try.  Before I was using   
   > Mageia, I had also already been running PCLinuxOS for several years ?   
   > ever since my last Mandrake (proper) distribution, which was Mandrake   
   > 10.0, I believe ? and PCLOS has always been a reliable and very decent   
   > distribution. ;)   
   >   
   >> Would like to stick to using KDE as I do like the Kate editor for   
   >> programming but would really like to use MySql instead of the old and   
   >> slow Mariadb.   
   >   
   > I'm using MySQL here ? KMail2 uses it ? and I've just checked to see if   
   > it is MariaDB or MySQL proper, but it is definitely the latter. ;)   
   >   
   > --   
   > = Aragorn =   
   >   
      
   I am ditching Cauldron completely, for the reasons I have stated so   
   many times before.  I am keeping Mageia Official as my working system,   
   and installing the "community" release of PCLOS as my second system   
   to try out.   
      
   Doug.   
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