• Forking around - PCLOS news

    From Bobbie Sellers@110:300/11 to All on Mon Jan 23 19:38:57 2017
    Hi fellow users of the Mandrake/Mandriva forks,

    Found the following this AM in current Distrowatch weekly.

    A post from the PCLinuxOS Twitter account suggests the project is
    going to be doing some cleaning of its software repositories this year. PCLinuxOS is a rolling release distribution, but tends to be conservative when it comes to swapping out packages and changing the user interface.
    The project's post reads, "Things going away in 2017: Legacy GRUB,
    Legacy GDM and KDE4." At the time of writing, PCLinuxOS already has
    KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop available as a session option and GRUB2
    (the replacement for GRUB Legacy) has been available to PCLinuxOS
    users for over a year.

    I thought you guys might like to know about this. Everyone knows I prefer to use KDE's Plasma 4.14.18 if you have been reading
    these posts.

    bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS-2016.03 GNU-Linux
    4.9.4-pclos1 x86_64

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  • From Aragorn@110:300/11 to All on Tue Jan 24 00:02:24 2017
    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.
    ;)

    On Monday 23 January 2017 19:38, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following
    to alt.os.linux.mandrake...

    Hi fellow users of the Mandrake/Mandriva forks,

    Found the following this AM in current Distrowatch weekly.

    A post from the PCLinuxOS Twitter account suggests the project is
    going to be doing some cleaning of its software repositories this
    year. PCLinuxOS is a rolling release distribution, but tends to be
    conservative when it comes to swapping out packages and changing the
    user interface. The project's post reads, "Things going away in 2017:
    Legacy GRUB, Legacy GDM and KDE4." At the time of writing, PCLinuxOS
    already has KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop available as a session option
    and GRUB2 (the replacement for GRUB Legacy) has been available to
    PCLinuxOS users for over a year.

    I thought you guys might like to know about this. Everyone knows I
    prefer to use KDE's Plasma 4.14.18 if you have been reading
    these posts.

    bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS-2016.03 GNU-Linux
    4.9.4-pclos1 x86_64

    I'm still running (64-bit) PCLinuxOS 2014.04 here, with KDE Plasma
    4.14.18. ;)

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@110:300/11 to All on Thu Jan 26 06:38:37 2017
    Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> 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.
    ;)

    On Monday 23 January 2017 19:38, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following
    to alt.os.linux.mandrake...

    Hi fellow users of the Mandrake/Mandriva forks,

    Found the following this AM in current Distrowatch weekly.

    A post from the PCLinuxOS Twitter account suggests the project is
    going to be doing some cleaning of its software repositories this
    year. PCLinuxOS is a rolling release distribution, but tends to be
    conservative when it comes to swapping out packages and changing the
    user interface. The project's post reads, "Things going away in 2017:
    Legacy GRUB, Legacy GDM and KDE4." At the time of writing, PCLinuxOS
    already has KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop available as a session option
    and GRUB2 (the replacement for GRUB Legacy) has been available to
    PCLinuxOS users for over a year.

    I thought you guys might like to know about this. Everyone knows I
    prefer to use KDE's Plasma 4.14.18 if you have been reading
    these posts.

    bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS-2016.03 GNU-Linux
    4.9.4-pclos1 x86_64

    I'm still running (64-bit) PCLinuxOS 2014.04 here, with KDE Plasma
    4.14.18. ;)

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    = Aragorn =


    I have just downloaded the "community" Xfce edition of
    PCLinuxOS-2016.07. It has a well-chosen selection of tools
    and applications.

    Doug.

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  • From Aragorn@110:300/11 to All on Thu Jan 26 14:40:35 2017
    On Thursday 26 January 2017 06:38, Doug Laidlaw conveyed the following
    to alt.os.linux.mandrake...

    Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> 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. ;)

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