Posted by Dave on 9/27/2008, 11:38 pm, in reply to "Re: PCLinuxOS"
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There are two potential deal-breakers for me, though, with PCLOS: 1) I need Tomboy, and the latest version available in PCLOS is ancient. There may be a way. And 2) I HATE working in 1024x768. So far that's the best I can get and trying to improve it has broken X each time. The native resolution for this laptop is 1680x1050; Mandriva set up with 1400x1050 and that's OK; 1024x768 won't cut it -- it doesn't let me put more than one app onscreen at one time, which I like to display 2 to 4 apps on one screen and then use a minimum of 3 desktops.
But, in many ways, it could serve as a good continuously-updated/upgraded distro for use as the base distro on my laptop (which is my "production" machine and must be stable; I can mess around on the tower and, if I blow it, no biggie, no essential data lost, reinstall, etc... can't do it on the laptop).
On the other hand, if Cooker works out, I could use a combination of Cooker in one partition and a stable Mandriva in the other, both accessing the same config and data files; so if Cooker went south I could revert to the stable with nothing lost. That could work also.
It's nice to have alternatives!!! :^>
In faith, Dave
Viva Texas
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