More forking around with pclinuxos64-KDE5-2016.04.15.iso

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi typers and readers,

I am not sure where I found pclinusos64-KDE5-2016.04.15.iso.
I tried to find it again to check on any useful remarks but had no
luck.

This is a preview of PCLinux with KDE 5.x.x.
It ran pretty well but here are the notes I took.

Tried to put it on a flash drive but would not boot so may need
modification. Maybe it needs to have isohybrid run on it.

Wrote it to a DVD and had no problem booting.

guest]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 4.4.7-pclos1 #1 SMP Tue Apr 12 14:22:45 CDT 2016 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Kate Using:Version 15.12.3 with which I wrote these notes.

Using:
KDE Frameworks 5.21.0
Qt 5.6.0 (built against 5.6.0)
The xcb windowing system

KDE Partition Manager
Version 2.1.0 using the same
versions of KDE Frameworks and Qt.
Well it works pretty well, seems like some
GParted functions are misplaced. Like the
apply button is on the left side of the bar
rather than on the right side.

Tools to download and update the LibreOffice suite and the VirtualBox
are present in the menu system.

Finally found System Settings hidden away just as I began to think it
was not there. Version 5.6.2

Firefox 45.0.2 works as well as Firefox seems to do.
I used it to make a .pdf of a page,
No .pdf reader available as far as I can see.
Back here on PCLinuxOS 2016.03 Ocular opened my Firefox
.pdf very nicely.

Thunderbird comes with but I did not try it out as
where would my information go? Probably into the bit bucket.

PCLOS Control Center was right there and I used it to look
around a bit. Slightly different partition manager contained
there.

This KDE Plasma 5 works but is still lacking the simple
refinements of the previous releases of the Plasma 4 series.
I have to say the background of colored fog is nicer than
the geometric distortions seen in the other releases.
All in all this preview version is as one might expect
running solidly but lacking many useful tools
Oh and only one game, Kpatience, which has about a dozen
slightly different versions of solitaire available.

I can hardly wait until Plasma 5 satisfies my utilitarian
tastes.
bliss

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by Bobbie Sellers
Hi typers and readers,
I am not sure where I found pclinusos64-KDE5-2016.04.15.iso.
I tried to find it again to check on any useful remarks but had no
luck.

Bobbie, I am downloading pcLinuxOS64-mate-2016.04, with a torrent from
LinuxTracker.org. All torrents there are cross-referenced to Distrowatch.

Since I am using the MATE desktop, I can't comment on KDE.

My experience with flash drives is the opposite of yours. My BIOS will
often not recognize a UEFI DVD. It will recognize a flash drive made
with Mageia's Isodumper every time. Apparently some flash writing
programs omit the UEFI directory, or part of it. Isodumper will work
for any distro, BIOS or EFI. A straight dd command should work, however.
There is a link to the wiki page at the top of Mageia's Downloads page.
P.S. If a flash drive made with isodumper has problems, the fault must
lie with the distro.

Doug.

[Doug Laidlaw]

Post by Doug Laidlaw

Post by Bobbie Sellers
Hi typers and readers,
I am not sure where I found pclinusos64-KDE5-2016.04.15.iso.
I tried to find it again to check on any useful remarks but had no
luck.

Bobbie, I am downloading pcLinuxOS64-mate-2016.04, with a torrent from
LinuxTracker.org. All torrents there are cross-referenced to Distrowatch.
Since I am using the MATE desktop, I can't comment on KDE.
My experience with flash drives is the opposite of yours. My BIOS will
often not recognize a UEFI DVD. It will recognize a flash drive made
with Mageia's Isodumper every time. Apparently some flash writing
programs omit the UEFI directory, or part of it. Isodumper will work
for any distro, BIOS or EFI. A straight dd command should work, however.
There is a link to the wiki page at the top of Mageia's Downloads page.
P.S. If a flash drive made with isodumper has problems, the fault must
lie with the distro.
Doug.

I now have PCLinuxOS64 2016 with MATE desktop from Linuxtracker.
It seems to have full support for UEFI.
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