Review: PcLinuxOS 2009.1
In 2007 as one of our first Linux distro reviews, we took a peak at PcLinuxOS 2007 (aka PCLOS) and found it at the time to be a stellar product for it's time, stable, clean, easy to use and enjoyable. But two years have gone by with little more than updates, and a few patches. Yet now we finally have the next release of PCLOS in the wild. Will it still retain it's former glory, or has the new version ended up as a fizzling dud?
LiveCD
Just like with the previous version, PCLOS 2009.1 comes on a single CD and offers a fairly standard LiveCD environment. Current features of PCLOS 2009.1 are as follows:
KDE 3.5.10
Linux Kernel 2.6.26.8
Xorg 1.4
There is also a separate version now available called PCLOS-Gnome that includes Gnome 2.24, Gnome office apps, and many of the other features present in the KDE version. I did not get a chance to test the Gnome version, but since the only real difference between the two is the desktop environment, I'm going to assume for this review that both were essentially the same performance wise. However, I will only be focusing on the KDE version for the rest of the review.
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