A Great Distro

[CalTux9000]

This is, I think, a great Linux distribution. I have a Gateway MX3414 Laptop to which I installed PCLinuxOS 2010.12. Thus far, all systems are a go. The video, sound, wireless and other components worked out of the box. I had tried the live CD-DVDs of other distros without this level of success.

The PCLinuxOS website is top level, the forums are friendly and informative, and the PCLinuxOS Magazine is outstanding. I think I have found my Linux home.

Thank you Texstar and all the others who labor on PCLinuxOS for such a great Linux distribution.



MX3414 Notebook Specifications  (From the Gateway Support Website)

Processor    AMD Turion™ 64 Mobile Technology TL-50
Operates at 1.6 GHz | 256 KB x2 KB L2 Cache
HyperTransport™ technology at up to 1600 MHz
Screen   14.1-inch Widescreen Ultrabright™ WXGA TFT
Chipset    NVIDIA™ C51MV Chipset
Memory   1024 MB DDR2 Memory 533 MHz (2 x 512) (I upgraded to 1.5 GB)
Expandable to 2 GB
Total Slots: 2 DDR2 Slots | Available Slots: 0 DDR2 Slots
Video    NVIDIA™ GeForce™ Go 6100 Integrated Graphics
Up to 128 MB shared video memory
Audio    AC '97 2.3 Compliant Audio
Built-in speakers
Hard Drive   100-GB hard drive (4200 RPM)
Optical Drive    DVD+/-RW Multi-Format Double Layer (up to 8.5 GB)
Write maximum: 8X DVD+/-R, 6X DVD-RW, 8X DVD+RW, 2X DVD-R DL, 2.4X DVD+R DL, 24X CD-R and 16X CD-RW discs
Read maximum: 24X CD-R/RW/ROM, 8X DVD-R/RW/ROM, 4X DVD+/-R DL, RAM discs

Media Reader   4-in-1 Digital Media Manager
Secure Digital, Memory Stick, Memory Stick-Pro, and MMC
Modem   56K ITU V.92 ready Fax/Modem
Network    10/100 Mbps built-in Ethernet
802.11g Wireless LAN
SecureEasySetup™
Interfaces   
3 - USB 2.0 Ports
1 - VGA External Connector
1 - RJ11
1 - RJ45
1 - Microphone In
1 - Headphone / Audio Out
Pointing Device   Touchpad with Vertical Scroll Zone

[jimwilk]

CalTux9000,

Welcome to both this fine distro and this helpful forum.

Jim

[Archie]

Welcome, CalTux9000,

You are now among friends.

[menotu]

Hi CalTux9000 - welcome the best forum in town, lovely to have you with us.

Remember, don't be a stranger.

Enjoy

[Crow]

Welcome to the "just works" distro CalTux9000 

Since you have no problems, see you in Sandbox   

[zapjb]

Welcome. Ask questions, everyone's nice here.

[smileeb]

CalTux9000, you are right about this OS and everybody on the forum thanks you and already knows this. Your job is now to go to every member of your family and all those many friends and co-workers and get them to run this great OS and read and down load the magazine which is as close to a manual as you can get. Oh and also have them donate a few bucks, remember widows
cost hundred of dollars and so does office and some of those protection programs if you want to buy them. With PCLinuxOS everything is free and is like the church basket, give what you can.
 

[exploder]

CalTux9000, I have to agree with everything you wrote. PCLinuxOS has the best hardware support of anything I have ever tried and it is consistently good. The forum has plenty of people willing to help when you need it and you can have some fun around here too. Nice distro, nice people and a really good operating system.

[Copper]

CalTux9000, I have to agree with everything you wrote. PCLinuxOS has the best hardware support of anything I have ever tried and it is consistently good. <clip>

My 2 Euro-cents to that: The hardware support of PCLOS is great!

I had a Belkin Bluetooth USB dongle that earlier had jammed my PCLOS 2009 totally on an old dual-Pentium III setup. It worked very slowly on a similar Windows XP machine.

Now I needed bluetooth and stuck the dongle on my spare Windows machine: "unknown device on USB", that was all. I had earlier installed all drivers on Windows XP.

I have earlier thought that the dongle was broken. Anyway, now I thought I could still try it on my new PC with new PCLOS 2010 install. I stuck the dongle in the socket, about 10 seconds later the blue LED was lit and the device manager showed a new connection "Bluetooth device" (my Nokia phone with bluetooth on), some negotiation about bluetooth pairing and my phone was represented as a disk device, YES !!!

This kind of experience is well worth a donation...




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[Village Idiot]

Welcome to the "just works" distro CalTux9000 

Since you have no problems, see you in Sandbox   

Some of us are in the Sandbox because we have problems.. 

[Archie]

Yeah ... problems with too much time on our hands with nothing else better to do than to figure out ways to break PCLOS in such a state we haven't done yet so we could ask for help....

If you don't believe me, ask menotu!