PCLinuxOS Trashed!
Systemtrash... what dorks! If they've never heard of grub or Mandriva, what the heck are they doing? Ok, to be fair the one guy seems to know a little about linux, but the other one - he must own the equipment. This week they "trashed" our beloved PCLinuxOS. And thing one thing that stuck out for me was the quoting from or reading of the background on Texstar and PCLinuxOS from my site, but no credit given. Hey, where's my link guys!? I sent them an email.
Systemtrash is a new website that seems to have devoted itself to sort of reviewing Linux distributions. They state, "Systemtrash is a podcast in which some exotic computer system gets set up by our fine host Dimitri, who then turns it over to his co-host Frank who tries to trash it (figuratively speaking of course)." Dimitri Larmuseau seems to be the linux technician who can install and get around the systems, whereas Frank De Graeve is his sidekick who makes one wonder why him. He freely admits to knowing "**** of computers." He must own the equipment or pay the hosting bills.
In their third installment, they "trash" PCLinuxOS. Dimi starts out with some great background information on Texstar and how his distro came into being. That portion of the show was wonderful and a great job digging up the information - for whomever did the background fact checking.
As stated, Dimi seems to know his way around Linux fairly well. I wouldn't think he's an expert, but he does manage to find some of the key features and discusses them candidly. He seems to show integrity and honesty and even humilty. Dimi is a likable host. Extra points given for calling his co-host a dimwit.
Frank now, where did they get this guy? His most proficent talent seems to be chugging beer. He's actually one who has never heard of Mandriva or grub. His most often heard complaint is about graphical tools. He may have made a point about some tv cards not being setup properly by linux distributions, but I've yet to see a windows install do better. In fact, windows installs don't even know there's a tv card present until a driver is installed (and in fact, I never did get mine to work in windows XP). If one has a plain jane basic bttv, they are setup automagically in Linux. But any tv card that has extra chips or requires user parameters is not. I've yet to see an operating system from anyone set mine up properly.
Other complaints by Frank on PCLOS were that OpenOffice.org was not included on the live-cd and that it took 15 minutes to save one's home directory to a usbkey. He may have a valid point on that latter issue and I can't speak intelligently on the subject as never having tried that feature myself. (Donations accepted).
Another problem spoke of by Dimi was the update feature of PCLOS. He stated he got errors about broken packages. This does happen from time to time with Texstar's repositories. Sometimes when he updates a package or set of packages and new dependencies are listed or not updated along-side, this can happen. Once informed, Texstar usually fixes the problem post-haste. I update my PCLOS about once every two weeks or so and have yet to be bitten by such glitches, but I know they happen. I've seen posts about it.
In the end, they could not state that PCLOS was 'granny approved' and I think that's a shame. I for one think if any Linux distribution should be granny approved, it would be PCLOS. Too many times Linux is still not "stick in the cd and click click click to the desktop". I test many distros, in case you didn't know, and I've rarely run across one that did not require some under the hood adjustments from me. But PCLOS is about the closest I've come to that scenario. Thing is, one can make these adjustments in Linux and carry on. Too many times with windows, either that hardware never works, or properly, or sometimes the OS won't run on a particular computer at all. Dimi states that he is anxiously awaiting a full 1.0 release, as are we. He basically spoke positively about PCLOS and found it hard not to recommend it to his granny. He words were "not yet."
Anyway, I gave Frank a hard time here, but the podcast is really worth a listen. I predict they may have a nice idea for a site and service and may put me outta business here with my old-fashioned text and image reviews! D*mn them, d*mn them to h*lllll!
Give it a listen and visit their site. Other "trash" podcasts include SUSE and Ubuntu. Next episode GENTOO! Oh man, poor ole Frank, he won't know what hit him.
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I think you are being very kind when you say "the podcast is really worth a listen." My opinion is that it is of little interest and less utility. Don't waste time and bandwidth.
Podcasts - meh!
Podcasts, the fad of the month, made for and by the "I recv'd a public education" crowd. Something shiny that moves in a jerky motion will come along shortly and the podcast bunch will scamper off and do that.
Re: Podcasts - meh!
Podcasts, the fad of the month, made for and by the "I recv'd a public education" crowd. Something shiny that moves in a jerky motion will come along shortly and the podcast bunch will scamper off and do that.
Yeah! Good ole text and still images = back bone of the internet!