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Antman
October 18th, 2008, 09:35 PM
ON BEHALF OF TEXSTAR, The Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the first public beta ISO release of what will ultimately become PCLinuxOS 2009. Due to some very personal issues, Texstar has taken a temporary leave of absence, but not to worry folks, he'll be back very soon. Grin

We're releasing this series of beta iso's under the name of N1PTT to honor the loss of Robert Green, a long time dear friend of the PCLinuxOS community who recently succumbed to cancer. Rest in peace my friend.

This beta iso features kernel 2.6.26.6.tex2, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 2.4.1, Firefox 3.0.3, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Frostwire, Ktorrent, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more.
We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as the we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repo once we stabilize it.
http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=58&topic=50565.0
LaRoza
October 18th, 2008, 11:33 PM
Ah, good. I will have to try it.

Not for me, but I am always looking for things to make things painless for others.
Twitch6000
October 19th, 2008, 02:21 AM
oh joy oh joy I gotta try this distro :D.
smoker
October 19th, 2008, 07:12 AM
great news, been waiting eons for this :-)
K.Mandla
October 19th, 2008, 07:15 AM
Cool. I need a change of view. I might see how it goes.
TrailerTrash
October 19th, 2008, 05:55 PM
Il pass on this one. Feels just like PCLOS 2007 with a few updated packages. I see no real diffrence.
icecruncher
October 20th, 2008, 03:16 PM
Il pass on this one. Feels just like PCLOS 2007 with a few updated packages. I see no real diffrence.

well, what do you expect?
how do you need more?
hey, even updated artwork. cool artwork at that.
Istonian
October 20th, 2008, 04:25 PM
I dislike the artwork. PCLOS is a pretty nice distro though.
I-75
October 20th, 2008, 05:39 PM
Thanks for the info
NoSmokingBandit
October 20th, 2008, 09:10 PM
If they put KDE4 and OOo3 in there i will consider a download.
Antman
October 20th, 2008, 10:17 PM
If they put KDE4 and OOo3 in there i will consider a download.
I for one am glad they didn't put KDE4 in there yet.:KS
WestAussieUbu
October 20th, 2008, 10:22 PM
This is what I love about Linux, the freedom of choice of distribution. Of course i've been a Ubuntu lover since o5 but its always good to see these fella's churn out their work.

In regards to the 2009 version, i can't say I'm a fan though, and I don't think I would personally have much use for it per se unless I was to set it up for my little brother and sister.
Hallvor
October 23rd, 2008, 12:20 PM
I for one am glad they didn't put KDE4 in there yet.:KS

+1. There are so many bleeding edge distros out there that are as experimental as they are buggy. If you want a nice production system with KDE, 3.5.x is the way to go. KDE 4 is coming along nicely, but I`d rather wait a while longer since it lacks some functionality and is still rather buggy.