VirtualBox

[bluegroper]

"February 12, 2010
VirtualBox 3.1.4 released!
Oracle today released VirtualBox 3.1.4, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 3.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
See the ChangeLog for details. "

We look forward to this important update being included in PCLOS.
 

[Texstar]

Already built for 2010.

[davidwillis]

Is there anyway you can get the version that has usb support, or is that something we will have to manually install?

[nixer]

That you would have to manually install due to licensing issues with the owners of virtualbox.  That is called the PUEL (personal end user license, I think) whereas the version in the repos is the OSE edition.  I have installed the PUEL edition in the past and it installed and runs great.  However, the official word is to not install anything from outside of the repositories or your forum support will be reduced, which I understand why.

May I ask what you need USB for?  If it is for a printer or scanner then okay, but if you only wish to use a flash drive, usb drive, or something similar, then you can mount the host  /media/  folder as a shared folder, then everything mounted on the host would be readable and writable.

If you must use something from outside the repositories, then you may want to install pclos again in another partition and call it a "testing" install.  That's what I did some time back, but now I just use the OSE (open source edition.)

[davidwillis]

Thanks... I installed the version that used the usb, and it is working great.  I just can't update it anymore.

I do have a printer I would like to use, as well as it is just very convenient at times to have usb support.  I also have a mounted folder, which is nice too.

I wonder why they won't let the ose edition have usb support?

Anyway, thanks

[bluegroper]

Already built for 2010.

Does this mean it will come out thru the repositories in the next few days ?
I like to keep my PCLOS "pure", and am reluctant to update a package without using Synaptic as normal.
More TIA's

[j-retired]

I have been running the USB enabled version on several machines for a year or two now. Despite the warnings about installing "outside the repos" (Which do need taking seriously) I have had no problems with VBox. So I reckon if you take precautions - those 'frequent backups'  go for it - the worst that can happen is you need to do a re-install.

j

[nixer]

No bluegroper, it means that we will see it when the 2010 beta version is out, and not before, I guess.  The current repositories are frozen and probably will be lost in the near future.  But, the new 2010 will point you to a new repository which has the newest version of Virtualbox already packaged and waiting to be used.  The 2010 repository is being populated with lots of programs that are being built with and for the 2010 system.   Hence the need to freeze the current 2009 repos, why spend the time to update programs with an "end of life" system?  It is best to put the packaging efforts to the future (2010 repo) and not the past (2009).

Like you, I wonder when I will be able to fill an unused partition on my hard drive, or to overwrite the current KDE4 install.  But I would never ask when will it be ready because I know the answer.

But I wonder if I can get away with this... when will we be able to use the newly packaged virtualbox ose edition?       I know that it is ready because:

Already built for 2010.

[bluegroper]

Thx for info.
Seems like I might be tempted to go "outside the repos" for this one.

BTW, is there an easy way to find out what version of PCLOS I'm running on a particular box ?
Is there a PCLOS version number stored someplace convenient ?

TIA's

[nixer]

I don't know of one.  Since it is a rolling release, it would be either 2007, 2009 or the soon to be 2010.  This will be only the second time that I have had to update since 2006 (BigDaddy).  The change from 2007 to 2009 was a "Big Update" (and not a required re-install) which was probably far too much work on the developers in the longrun.  It would probably be easier to reinstall occasionally than to go through an update like that again, in my opinion.

[kjpetrie]

Look in /etc/pclinuxos-release.

[menotu]

For release version open the Konsole and enter:
cat /etc/*-release

For kernel version open the Konsole and enter:
uname -r

For kernel version AND other system details open the Konsole and enter:
uname -ar

[Xenaflux]

For release version open the Konsole and enter:
cat /etc/*-release

DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="PCLinuxOS"
PCLinuxOS release 2010 (PCLinuxOS) for i586

 
I can assure you that I am running 2009

Xena

[menotu]

It simply shows that you have an updated system which has "rolled over" to the 2010 naming convention - but yes, in reality you still have 2009x installed.

When the new Distro (KDE4.iso) comes out that will be the real 2010 system

If you did the cat /etc/*-release command directly after installing the 2009.x KDE 3.5 iso (e.g. without any updates) that would show it as "Release 2009.x"

[bluegroper]

PCLinuxOS release 2010 (PCLinuxOS) for i586

So am I using 2009 or 2010 ??
Seems unnecessarily confusing.