[wellylug] PCLinuxOS

[Wood Brent]

--- Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> Username: Guest Password: Guest
> Username: Root  Password: Root
> 
> Not a user of PCLinuxOS - but Brent showed me it yesterday with the
> usernames and password :)
> 

Note: passwords are LOWER CASE (guest & root)

see http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/html/documentation.html

A clever little LiveCD, very good support from the author & list, simple & tidy
install to hard drive option, includes proprietary stuff like Nvidia drivers
which auto install so you can play things like Chromium & Tuxracer. A good idea
for a LiveCD which is supposed to be a demo to play with IMHO, as it shows what
you can do, rather than what you can't.

Package manager is still being developed, but I believe it is a version of
synaptic which supports apt-get & rpm. Works very nicely through ibilio &
manages dependencies pretty well.

The other neat option is the included mklivecd, which supposedly allows you to
create a new iso for a custom livecd after you add/remove packages to get the
setup you want. I do plan to play with this some time :-)

For those who want a Power Linux, prob inappropriate, but a good intro to Linux
& LiveCD's.

Brent