PCLinuxOS P9 released

[roadworker]

My favorite multimedia distro.....

Release notes:


http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/h...ase_notes.html



VERY fast link:

http://ftp2.be.freesbie.org/packages...glish/preview/

[LTR12101B]

That FTP is LOADED with distro's
Wandered around and stumbled on "Frugalware" - found it on distrowatch, and it's a mildly tweaked Slackware with a package manager adapted from Arch.

Not sure, but it seems that Redhat and derivatives, like Mandrake (now Mandriva) seem to be losing ground to Debian and Slackware based distro's - the most important variation between camps, is the style of package manager, the "out of the box" CPU compile - and while you could recomplie up, you can't run a "Pentium or better" compiled version on a 486, and the choice of frontend.

Can any distro be considered "definitive"?

[scarecrow]

Frugalware has some potential, but it's still rather immature (although quite stable). And actually it's just half-Slack, as it uses custom packages with dependency information (unlike Slack), which is much closer to the Arch Linux tarballs.
The perfect distro is the one that optimally fits your needs. In fact linux is so customizable that you can find something close to what you need after some serious search. A geek with plenty of time to spare will always opt for LFS and Gentoo, and an absolute newbie for Mandrake, PCLinuxOS and Mepis (I won't consider at all the commercial Linux distros, these for me lack the best part of the OS: no cost). But between those two ends there are choices, choices, choices... while under Windows there is simply the choice is a matter of pocket, not needs.