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Bobbie Sellers

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Jan 23, 2017, 1:38:59 PM1/23/17
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Hi fellow users of the Mandrake/Mandriva forks,

Found the following this AM in current Distrowatch weekly.

> A post from the PCLinuxOS Twitter account suggests the project is
> going to be doing some cleaning of its software repositories this year.
> PCLinuxOS is a rolling release distribution, but tends to be conservative
> when it comes to swapping out packages and changing the user interface.
> The project's post reads, "Things going away in 2017: Legacy GRUB,
> Legacy GDM and KDE4." At the time of writing, PCLinuxOS already has
> KDE's Plasma 5.8 desktop available as a session option and GRUB2
> (the replacement for GRUB Legacy) has been available to PCLinuxOS
> users for over a year.

I thought you guys might like to know about this. Everyone knows I
prefer to use KDE's Plasma 4.14.18 if you have been reading
these posts.

bliss "running fast and light" on PCLinuxOS-2016.03 GNU-Linux
4.9.4-pclos1 x86_64

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Aragorn

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Jan 23, 2017, 6:02:25 PM1/23/17
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I've set the follow-up to the PCLOS and Mandriva groups, because the
Mandrake group has been dead in the water for many, many years already.
;)

On Monday 23 January 2017 19:38, Bobbie Sellers conveyed the following
to alt.os.linux.mandrake...
I'm still running (64-bit) PCLinuxOS 2014.04 here, with KDE Plasma
4.14.18. ;)

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Doug Laidlaw

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Jan 26, 2017, 12:38:38 AM1/26/17
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Aragorn <thor...@telenet.be> Wrote in message:
I have just downloaded the "community" Xfce edition of
PCLinuxOS-2016.07. It has a well-chosen selection of tools
and applications.

Doug.

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Aragorn

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Jan 26, 2017, 8:40:37 AM1/26/17
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On Thursday 26 January 2017 06:38, Doug Laidlaw conveyed the following
to alt.os.linux.mandrake...

> Aragorn <thor...@telenet.be> Wrote in message:
>
>> I've set the follow-up to the PCLOS and Mandriva groups, because the
>> Mandrake group has been dead in the water for many, many years
>> already. ;)
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> I'm still running (64-bit) PCLinuxOS 2014.04 here, with KDE Plasma
>> 4.14.18. ;)
>
> I have just downloaded the "community" Xfce edition of
> PCLinuxOS-2016.07. It has a well-chosen selection of tools
> and applications.

Don't forget to install "man". PCLOS does not install it by default,
albeit that it does install GNU info instead. ;)

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