Subj : Re: Remmina RDP To : Mike Powell From : Ky Moffet Date : Tue Jun 04 2024 21:29:00 MIKE POWELL wrote: >> Yeah. Next one I become addicted to, I'd like to outlive me. > > Yes, that is my hope also. ;) LOL. Old Farts Farting About Linux. Acronymy :D >> Fedora is tolerable, but I don't LIKE it the way I do PCLOS. And the >> performance is nowhere near as good. Boot to desktop: >> PCLOS: 5-10 seconds on a modern machine, 30 seconds on a 16 year old laptop. >> Fedora: 2 minutes on a modern machine, I wouldn't even TRY it on the laptop. > > I would not bother trying that on a old laptop, either! I'm not sure it would even boot. It has perhaps the oldest laptop CPU that was x64, and only 2GB RAM. Even PCLOS isn't snappy, but it's not sluggish. Mint might run, Puppy would, and Q4OS (which is quite slick on old hardware). I wouldn't bet on anything else. > >>> told me before, but which one is PCLinuxOS based on? > >> Mandrake, a LONG time ago, before Mandrake itself died. It's become its >> own thing, tho the nearest current relation is OpenMandriva (but OM is >> not nearly as clean and bug-free). > > Have you ever looked at Mageia? I have never tried it but it is supposed > to be a fork of Mandriva, forked about the same time as OM when Mandriva > stopped supporting an open source version. Yeah, I always check out Mageia when a new version comes out, but it's... very very slow, and not stable, and it gets more sluggish with every version. It should be nice, they try hard, but apparently there is zero clue about optimization. OpenMandriva isn't sluggish like that, but it's not very "finished". Kubuntu always reminds me that Ubuntu only really cares about the Gnome desktop. It just feels like a poor relation, plus has Ubuntu's... heft. > I was sorry to see Mandrake go. It was one of the first distros I tried. Yeah, I was very sad about that. I'd had RedHat 6 long before (it stank in every way, was unstable, and was a horrible slug, and when it forgot its own password, I nuked it), but Mandrake 7.2 with some early KDE desktop was the first one I got to run well and showed promise of being everyday-usable. Wasn't there yet, but could see it coming, and I actually *liked* it, whereas I'd hated RedHat and whatever else I'd looked at. And funny thing, when I went looking for a linux I could love, all the ones I liked best were Mandrake descendants. > The installer was slick and appeared to work perfectly with my video card. > However, the installer failed to set the actual OS up like it did during > the installer video tests and left the system unusable. :( I had hoped > one day maybe to try it again on more modern hardware but it morphed into > Mandriva shortly thereafter. Mandriva, or now OpenMandriva, is the nearest direct descendant, but PCLOS seems to have better preserved the general goodness. Mandrake really was geared toward being usable by ordinary people with no linux knowledge or experience. However, Tex just switched to some other installer, and it's not near as easy as Drak -- with Drak it was two clicks to approve the defaults, five minutes, done. Could hand it to any idiot and they'd have a successful install. The new installer, not so, you have to pay attention and there's more stuff to select up front, and it no longer automagically makes the sensible 3 partitions (OS, swap, user). þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .