While I have tryed many flavors of linux distros such as mandrake,
mandriva,ubuntu,kubuntu,suse,noppix,slackware,the list gos on and on.
I purchased a copy of suse several years ago,but alast pclinuxos took my
heart.Not just because of its ease of use but the community as a whole.
Sometimes happy sometimes sad and sometimes just bickering.We are like
one big family.Started years ago by Textar,one of the best rpm package
maintainers I have ever seen for mandrake.He had one goal.To make a easy
to install and maintainable os and he did it.Ok OK thats two goals but anyway
it uses rpms and together with synaptic he has pulled in the best of several
distros in one.Runs as a live cd as can be installed with a few clicks.Well sorry
for the rant but I felt I needed to share this with everyone here who is not
aware of this fine ditro.So head on over,download your favorite copy,minime
junior,or bigdaddy for free and give it a whiral.Bigdaddy is what you need for a
complete multimedia experience.Slow download,no problem,download from here
for a small fee witch some of it goes to help tex develope pclinuxos.ondisk

Also here for pclinuxos.pclinuxos

Another fan of PCLinuxOS ?

komm ! I got a new friend for you  

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Maybe I should try this distro once  

I have tried PCLinuxOS before, I liked it; unlike most RPM-Based distros I have tried (SuSE 10 OSS, Fedora Core 5+4, some others I cant remember) I had very few problems.  I for once didnt fall into rpm dependancy hell.  Texstar, I agree, does an excellent job of keeping this very promising distro moving in the right direction.  I also, which seems to be mandrake's menu stuff, got my PPPoE running flawlessly.  I have to say that I was impressed.  I do have a few qualms with PCLinuxOS, though, it isnt all good.

1.) RPMs are always a headache, although this particular one wored relativly well with apt4rpm, I still dont trust them (scarred for life ) I much prefer Debian packaging, or gentoo's compiling package system.

2.) I didn't switch to linux to look at Willy Gates' playskool GUI.  I have never been a real KDE fan, (osnap, another GNOME/XFCE/iceWM fanboy )

If I were you, I would go test it out, but if you want to try a starter distro, I would go with MEPIS definately.

http://www.mepis.org/

read what i said in what is your linux os and why did u choose it it answers all teh ? with facts - then you will end up gettign AROS.

see this
 http://forum.crystalxp.net/index.php?showtopic=25225
since i have been using it only 2 or 3 times i went back to xp . it is truly great distro .
soon there will be new iso cd with kde 3.5.8 , new compiz and open office 2.3 , new firefox .
and as bonus if you donate you get access pass repos for faster downloads and faster access to updates in repo
i love it !

 I have never used linux
but now want to, so what you will recommend ?
  I need something with clear understanding & total control
and a high priority to safety & stability.

Like i sadi AROS - so u guys can see and ahve a taste of what treu stability and multitasking is besides being a true 256bit os  now if on the x86 its then 8bit as x86 is jsut that 8bit.

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

u tube has several videos on it also - yes its free. 25megs fro the x86 - and only 6megs fro teh itanium aka amiga = ps3

i recommend ubuntu 8.10 way cool or gentu

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You mean Gentoo ?

yer sorry i need to go back to school

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