Last night I attempted to upgrade all packages for my PCLinuxOS 2007 distribution, since I haven't done so since installation back in May. I've read that it's usually a painless process. I loaded Synaptic and started the download, but I went to sleep before it completed (probably about an hour to download all packages). The next morning, I saw that there were error messages saying that there was no space left on the drive. I discovered that the partition was 100% full.
Hopeful, I tried again. Still error messages. This time it warned about having duplicate libraries. Not much I could do here. I rebooted (uncommon for Linux), but found that my system was messed up. I couldn't shut down without logging in as root, couldn't open Firefox, etc.
I had to go to work. During my lunch break, I searched the web and PCLOS forums, unsuccessfully. I don't feel like posting my problem and waiting for help. I found out that PCLinuxOS Gnome 2.12.2 was just released on 12/29/07. Great! I was thinking of trying it out anyway. Now is a good opportunity. When I got home, I downloaded the cd image and installed it over my old PCLinuxOS 0.93a partition (which I didn't use anyway). I currently reserve two partitions for Linux and one for Windows.
Installation was a breeze. I did have to add PCLOS 2007 to the boot menu, but the installation GUI made the task simple. In under 30 minutes, I was running PCLOS Gnome. So far, I am very pleased. The distro has a polished theme. The Gnome desktop is very clean and responsive. The preselected set of applications look good. I'll try AbiWord, but I may need to install OpenOffice instead. All my drive partitions appear to be mounted successfully--even the FAT32 partitions.
I haven't spent more than an hour exploring this new distro, but so far I have a good impression of the Gnome version of my favorite Linux distribution!
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Very interesting..... LOL
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