First look at PCLinuxOS 2007 (by Chris Smart)
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| In an age where Linux distributions seem to be bowing to pressure
| and including non-free and potentially license violating drivers
| and programs by default it was nice to see PCLinuxOS claim on
| their website to leave out such packages as win32codecs, libdvdcss
| and the 3D video drivers from NVIDIA and ATI. Indeed these drivers
| were not included on the system and according to apt neither was
| libdvdcss or win32codecs. Unfortunately I was unable to confirm
| the lack of DVD playback, but PCLinuxOS did play (out-of-the-box)
| all the files that I could throw at it, including; WMV, DIVX, XVID,
| MOV, ASF and MP3. If you do require the above packages do not
| despair, as PCLinuxOS does make it easy to install them if the
| end user so desires. A simple 'apt-get install libdvdcss2
| win32-codecs nvidia-_97xx ati' will do the trick.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20070528#feature
PCLinuxOS 2007 vs openSUSE 10.2 vs Windows XP: Comparing Boot-up/Shut-down
timings
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| My personal favourite openSUSE failed big-time, though the shut-down
| was not so bad. PCLinuxOS is slowly winning me over by it's high standard.
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http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/pclinuxos-2007-vs-opensuse-102-vs-windows-xp-comparing-boot-upshut-down-timings/
http://tinyurl.com/32fl6j
Opensuse significantly improved startup time recently. They also might get an
animated boot screen, based on a mockup.
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