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PCLinuxOS Magazine, July 2008 (Issue 23) is available to download. You can find it at the PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

1. Linux Media Players - Part 1

2. How to change your localization

3. Alphabet of programming languages

4. Chapter 4 - Kde User Guide

5. And more…

Please note that the magazine is released under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license unless otherwise stated on the articles themselves. By downloading this magazine you acknowledge and accept this license agreement.

Thanks for your interest in PCLinuxOS! If you feel you’d like to contribute to future issues, please check out the contribute link in the main menu. If you have any suggestions, comments, corrections, or letters to the editor, feel free to submit them this way or send an email to mag@pclosmag.com

Thanks and enjoy!

PDF Version July 2008 (Issue 23)

HTML Version July 2008 (Issue 23)

The last time I looked at PCLinuxOS was version 0.92, which according to DistroWatch was about 3 years ago. I was asked to take a look at it again, so here I go.

I’m aware that this version is pretty old by now (June 2008), but as of this writing it was the latest full non-beta version available. I don’t like to rant on betas. I’m puzzled to see that there has been no obvious word given on when we can expect a new version.

According to this forum post from an administrator on the PCLinuxOS forum, the group was originally gunning toward an April release, but has since not seen the light of day for two more months. I’ll certainly do a rant on it as soon as it’s out.

Read more at TechieMoe.com

PCLinuxOS Magazine, June 2008 (Issue 22) is available to download. You can find it at the PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

• Read more: PCLinuxOS Magazine June 2008 Released

We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.4, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.

In the last couple of years, desktop-friendly Linux distributions have taken enormous leaps — they’re easier to install, better maintained, and more powerful than ever before. There’s also that many more of them — which means that many more possibilities to sift through.

In this roundup I’ve looked at seven Linux distributions, all mainly aimed at desktop users. Some ought to be household names; some are less widely sung but still worth looking at. All are meant to be top-of-the-line, “throw-and-go” distros for general use, so I paid careful attention to how they behaved on a fairly broad range of hardware — how display, networking, or other default configurations were set to behave both out of the box and after an update (if one was available).

Each of these distributions was installed on five machines:
Read more at InformationWeek

PCLinuxOS Magazine, May 2008 (Issue 21) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

1. Manage your Ipod with Amarok

2. PCLinuxOS Based Distros

3. Quick Fix for Damaged Xorg

4. Don’t Complain

5. Something Completely Different

6. And more…

Please note that the magazine is released under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license unless otherwise stated on the articles themselves. By downloading this magazine you acknowledge and accept this license agreement.

Thanks for your interest in PCLinuxOS! If you feel you’d like to contribute to future issues, please check out the contribute link in the main menu. If you have any suggestions, comments, corrections, or letters to the editor, feel free to submit them this way or send an email to mag@pclosmag.com

Thanks and enjoy!

PDF Version May 2008 (Issue 21)

HTML Version May 2008 (Issue 21)

Ever since my exploration of the various PCLinuxOS spins, I’ve been impressed with the project. Now that I’m having so much relative success with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, it’s unlikely that I will be running PCLinuxOS on my Gateway Solo 1450 laptop, but a) you never know and b) I’m looking for a good system to install for others, and PCLinuxOS is a top contender in that department.

Since I achieved the holy grail in the world of the Gateway Solo 1450 and Linux, that grail being properly working Suspend/Resume, I know that, at this point in time, Ubuntu is the best distribution for this hardware. But if I could learn more about how Suspend/Resume work, I might be able to level the playing field and run anything I want.
Read more at PCLinuxOS

If you’re looking for a GNOME desktop for the popular PCLinuxOS (PCLOS), then newly released PCLinuxOS Gnome might be for you.

PCLinuxOS Gnome is a community-developed Linux distribution built on the official PCLinuxOS MiniMe 2008 distribution, which is a minimized system containing the bare-bones necessities for a running system, a skeletal window manager, and a remastering tool. PCLinuxOS itself, known for its ease of use, beauty, and functionality, is loosely based on Mandriva Linux. It retains the RPM package format, ports the Mandriva Control Center and live installer, and focuses primarily upon KDE. It also contains components from Gentoo, openSUSE, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu. The distro’s developers tend to adapt the best elements of some of the best distros available for their own distribution. They tweak, customize, and rebuild each package for PCLOS, creating a fast and stable environment.

Read more at Linux.com

PCLinuxOS Magazine, April 2008 (Issue 20) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

• Read more: PCLinuxOS Magazine April 2008 Released!

PCLinuxOS Magazine, March 2008 (Issue 19) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list.

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

1. Dansguardian How-To

2. How-To Print to a Shared Windows Printer

3. Miro, Miro On The Wall

4. Nvidia Driver FAQ

5. Straight Forward Directions on Remasterme

6. And more…

Please note that the magazine is released under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license unless otherwise stated on the articles themselves. By downloading this magazine you acknowledge and accept this license agreement.

Thanks for your interest in PCLinuxOS! If you feel you’d like to contribute to future issues, please check out the contribute link in the main menu. If you have any suggestions, comments, corrections, or letters to the editor, feel free to submit them this way or send an email to mag@pclosmag.com

Thanks and enjoy!

http://pclosmag.com/zineshare/2008/032008.pdf

HTML Version March 2008 (Issue 19)

What version of Linux has been at the top of the Distrowatch rankings for months now that I’ve never tried until today? PCLinuxOS.

Everybody I know who has runs PCLinuxOS has good things to say about it. Scott Ruecker of LXer and the Los Angeles Daily News’ own City Hall reporter Rick Orlov are among those who have used and liked it.

I couldn’t boot the CD on my test machine (VIA C3-based converted thin client), but on the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) it’s booting just fine.

Read more at CLICK 

PCLinuxOS Magazine, February 2008 (Issue 18) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website. If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users. The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

1. How to setup autofs to mount samba shares or local partitions

2. A beginners howto on RealBasic

3. How to setup Xaamp and Joomla

4. Nvidia dual head setup

5. Configure Mozplugger to play midi files

6. And more…

Please note that the magazine is released under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license unless otherwise stated on the articles themselves. By downloading this magazine you acknowledge and accept this license agreement.

Thanks for your interest in PCLinuxOS! If you feel you’d like to contribute to future issues, please check out the contribute link in the main menu. If you have any suggestions, comments, corrections, or letters to the editor, feel free to submit them this way or send an email to mag@pclosmag.com

Thanks and enjoy!

http://pclosmag.com/zineshare/2008/022008.pdf

HTML Version February 2008 (Issue 18)

I really like OpenSUSE Linux, but the best distro is PCLinuxOS. If there was ever an OS that could help me ‘throw Windows out the window,’ this is it. Ive tried using Mac as an alternative to Windows, but I guess it just wasn’t for me. At least Apple implores its users to ‘Think Different,’ Microsoft insists everyone ‘be Genuine.’ So what would be their catch-phrase be, ‘Be Authentic?’

Although I like Vista very much, I’m turned off by the Orweillian efforts to ensure my ‘authenticity.’ Even worse than the feeling of being shaken down like a criminal every time I use my computer, is the irritating restrictions placed upon my use.

Read more at TonyR’s Blog

PCLinuxOS Magazine, January 2008 (Issue 17) is available to download. You can find it at the new PCLinuxOS Magazine website.  If you’d like to be informed immediately about our releases, please signup for the Magazine-Announce mailing list .

As we always do, the HTML version is simultaneously being published for low bandwidth users.  The HTML Site is W3C standards compliant for easy browsing.

Some highlights include:

1. Common Information Commands
2. How to repair kdeinit problems
3. It’s Magic!
4. Squeeze your data
5. Throwing Windows out the window
6. And more…

Please note that the magazine is released under the Creative Commons Atribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 license unless otherwise stated on the articles themselves. By downloading this magazine you acknowledge and accept this license agreement.

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