Yes, I do not miss a punch when I say gorilla has come to town!
The KDE 4, PCLinuxfullMonty has come to town bringing with it a bounty of packages.
I prefer it called a PCLinuxBounty instead of Monty.
Better still call it dearly as the PCLinux-The Gorilla in Town.
First of all let me thank the guys / girls who packaged this 4GiB-Gorilla of a version in a DVD and then posting it on only LinuxTracker, in the beginning of the year not in the middle or nowhere in the year.
Posting it on K or bit torrent was an absolute requirement since if I wanted to download on a normal browser it would have taken ages and would have never been able to accomplish it. Even the K-torrent it took solid 2 and a half days of continues downloading.
Thank god we had a holiday for our Independence Day, I could do that on that day was an achievement.
Please do not post this on a normal sever. It will kill the interest of a newbie in the poor third world countries wanting to download it.
S/he never (mostly he's) would be able to download it with the appallingly slow download speed here and poor servers (switched off in the night) here.
They would not have the perseverance of an old man like me who would never take a No for an answer.
It is never too late.
I must tell you it was not without pain I mounted it on my old computer with 1GiB RAM.
I had to go back to SuSe days and press F1. F2. To F6 to get the bearing and mounted a old kernel to boot it up,
It was not quick to boot with 64 RAM old graphic card.
Once mounted after very slow response (KDE4) it had packages well into the Knoppix 3.4 GiB live CD packages.
Only difference was Knoppix was fast still my favorite as a live CD.
It looks like texstar had done another first.
It has 32 and 64 bit capability too.
After some fiddling it mounted on one of my spare 64 bit computer. Took a hell of a long time to install but once installed wit was smooth running on 512 Graphic Card and 1 GiB RAM.
Even though it tool a long time to install it only used 60% of the RAM unlike SuSE 3.5 KDE which gobbles up all of the RAM and sometime freezes,too.
None of those problems and I was playing patient card game while it was installing.
I must confess my gut feeling is this is 64 bit and I my reading was right it was stated in the F1 documentation.
The packages were that much it nearly took me 20 minutes to glance through them and to find the install drop-down.
While all this was going on I was testing light weight archbang openbox distribution and unlike PCLinux when right clicks the first item of the drop-down was install.
Monty would have been better serves if I could find install like with openbox but nonetheless that 20 minutes was used up looking for all the new packages which was fun.
This time Knoppix has done honours by allowing it to be installed into hard disk.
(Whereas I could not find it in the PCLinux. I think it may be there in the F1 or somewhere else which I did not delve deeper. I will find it when I am ready to install it).
Thanks guys / girls for including LibreOffice, Blende and Skype, Scribus and many more.
It is comprehensive.
So enjoy both when it is hot hot like a spicy meal.
I could wait I have now installed it and running now and may be daily.
Activated K-Torrent and started downloading Salix Live KDE!
The KDE 4, PCLinuxfullMonty has come to town bringing with it a bounty of packages.
I prefer it called a PCLinuxBounty instead of Monty.
Better still call it dearly as the PCLinux-The Gorilla in Town.
First of all let me thank the guys / girls who packaged this 4GiB-Gorilla of a version in a DVD and then posting it on only LinuxTracker, in the beginning of the year not in the middle or nowhere in the year.
Posting it on K or bit torrent was an absolute requirement since if I wanted to download on a normal browser it would have taken ages and would have never been able to accomplish it. Even the K-torrent it took solid 2 and a half days of continues downloading.
Thank god we had a holiday for our Independence Day, I could do that on that day was an achievement.
Please do not post this on a normal sever. It will kill the interest of a newbie in the poor third world countries wanting to download it.
S/he never (mostly he's) would be able to download it with the appallingly slow download speed here and poor servers (switched off in the night) here.
They would not have the perseverance of an old man like me who would never take a No for an answer.
It is never too late.
I must tell you it was not without pain I mounted it on my old computer with 1GiB RAM.
I had to go back to SuSe days and press F1. F2. To F6 to get the bearing and mounted a old kernel to boot it up,
It was not quick to boot with 64 RAM old graphic card.
Once mounted after very slow response (KDE4) it had packages well into the Knoppix 3.4 GiB live CD packages.
Only difference was Knoppix was fast still my favorite as a live CD.
It looks like texstar had done another first.
It has 32 and 64 bit capability too.
After some fiddling it mounted on one of my spare 64 bit computer. Took a hell of a long time to install but once installed wit was smooth running on 512 Graphic Card and 1 GiB RAM.
Even though it tool a long time to install it only used 60% of the RAM unlike SuSE 3.5 KDE which gobbles up all of the RAM and sometime freezes,too.
None of those problems and I was playing patient card game while it was installing.
I must confess my gut feeling is this is 64 bit and I my reading was right it was stated in the F1 documentation.
The packages were that much it nearly took me 20 minutes to glance through them and to find the install drop-down.
While all this was going on I was testing light weight archbang openbox distribution and unlike PCLinux when right clicks the first item of the drop-down was install.
Monty would have been better serves if I could find install like with openbox but nonetheless that 20 minutes was used up looking for all the new packages which was fun.
This time Knoppix has done honours by allowing it to be installed into hard disk.
(Whereas I could not find it in the PCLinux. I think it may be there in the F1 or somewhere else which I did not delve deeper. I will find it when I am ready to install it).
Thanks guys / girls for including LibreOffice, Blende and Skype, Scribus and many more.
It is comprehensive.
So enjoy both when it is hot hot like a spicy meal.
I could wait I have now installed it and running now and may be daily.
Activated K-Torrent and started downloading Salix Live KDE!
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