PCLinuxOS KDE 64bit RC1

[pinoc]

It's that time of year again... Texstar's Birthday!

Happy Birthday Texstar!!!

In honor of this occasion, we proudly present the first public Release Candidate of the first 64 bit PCLinuxOS ever.

The 64 bit version of PCLinuxOS was started by Texstar himself and was what he was working on when forced to take a leave of absence. Lacking the Master's touch, we poor mortals have had to struggle on, learning as we go, to try to produce a finished 64 bit version worthy of the high standards set by Texstar. We think we are very close to that goal; close enough to present this 64 bit RC for the community, as a whole, to install, and help shake out any remaining bugs.

If you have a 64 bit computer, we invite you to install the RC and run it as if it were your main system. The RC will be fully supported, just as the present official 32 bit releases are, and we invite all constructive feed back, both positive and negative, so that we can polish everything up for the official release.

Download locations are available on the official PCLinuxOS KDE 64 download page.

Release Date: 02-02-2013
KDE Full Version (pclinuxos64-kde-RC1.iso)
Size: 1430 MB
Md5Sum: 305cc2ea94aceda2ad8b7ea10a662cfc
Produced by: Pinoc
User Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Analogous to the 32bit edition this DVD was built to provide a general purpose KDE desktop computing environment. The DVD includes popular tools for office, audio, video, graphics, and Internet applications (LibreOffice, Gimp, Skype, TeamViewer, Dropbox, VirtualBox, etc.) as well as additional drivers and tools to setup your hardware (graphic card, network, printer, scanner, etc.). Internationalisation support is provided for than 60 languages via addlocale.

Requirements: 64bit Intel or AMD processor; 1GB RAM or more; 10GB or more hard disk space;  3D desktop support requires a 3D instructions set compatible graphic card (NVidia/ATI/Intel); sound card, DVD-drive.

Grub boot screen:


Live-session:




Remarks:
- we ask all 64bit users to start fresh with this RC1 iso.
- Packages not currently available: DigiKam, some themes, kamerka, kamoso
- Language support not currently available: arabic, finnish, indian, chinese, greek, japanese, korean, turkish, vietnamese

Edit:
- DigiKam 3.0.0 and related applications now working
- localisation is now available for all languages, independent of the Desktop Environment

Please enjoy,

the PCLinuxOS team

PS: please report any issues in the dedicated thread here. Thanks.

[Texstar]

This is awesome! Thanks to everyone carrying the PCLinuxOS torch!

[Just17]

Great news!

Thanks to all concerned.

We mere users are aware how difficult and time consuming this has been, and are grateful for the effort of those who contributed.




...  now to install and complain ........     

[agmg]

Excellent news. I'm sure many people have been waiting for this!
Congratulations to all who worked hard to bring us this version.
Downloading and installing right away

PCLOS haters were always using the lack of a 64bit version as a disadvantage of our beloved distro.
I would like to see their faces now...

[Old-Polack]

Great news!

Thanks to all concerned.

We mere users are aware how difficult and time consuming this has been, and are grateful for the effort of those who contributed.




...  now to install and complain ........     

... borrowing Scoundrels hammer, to be prepared.....  

[Bald Brick]

[tschommer]

Fantastic news!

I've been using test05 for about 2 months now as my main system without any issues.

A million thanks to everyone involved in creating this!

[jogurtmen]

Great news, congratulations! 

[macemm]

Fine job, mighty fine job.

Congratulations to all concerned,

Hugh

[µT6]

great news!!!

one question, can i install it and then update it to final version or there will be first a rc2 and then a new iso to install final version?

[pinoc]

great news!!!

one question, can i install it and then update it to final version or there will be first a rc2 and then a new iso to install final version?

you should be able to update to whatever comes next, or use the final iso whenever that will be.
This is all very fresh stuff. 
-p.

[µT6]

i'm asking because i'm going to use it on my netbook that hasn't been reinstalled since october 2010

will make the jump as soon as the iso downloads, thank you 

[Old-Polack]

i'm asking because i'm going to use it on my netbook that hasn't been reinstalled since october 2010

will make the jump as soon as the iso downloads, thank you 

I don't usually have a /home partition, but I made an exception and transferred my /home directory from the upgraded test install to a new partition, then installed the RC1 to another partition and told the installer to use the newly created /home partition. When booting for the first time I added the root password and created the normal user with the same name and UID/GID as the previous installation. After logging in everything was just as it was on the previous installation, but fully upgraded to KDE 4.9.5. Three of my panel icons showed as blank white squares, indicating that those applications were not included with the RC. I installed each through Synaptic, right clicked each white icon, and clicked the edit choice. Having done no actual edit, I then closed the window, and each icon, in turn, changed to the proper one. Other than that, not a hitch.

[µT6]

currently i'm downloading the iso but it stops and start again and then speed does weird things, weird brazil server :S

i won't save anything from this, it will be 100% clean except my personal files, thanks for the suggestions

do you think i should have swap at 2 gbs or just 1.5 gbs? my ram is just 1 gb

[Old-Polack]

currently i'm downloading the iso but it stops and start again and then speed does weird things, weird brazil server :S

i won't save anything from this, it will be 100% clean except my personal files, thanks for the suggestions

do you think i should have swap at 2 gbs or just 1.5 gbs? my ram is just 1 gb

Depends on whether you use hibernate or not. If you do, go with 2 GB, if not 1.5 GB should be fine.