It’s Linux review time! Yes kids, if any of you have been wanting to get the skinny on the Linux distro known as PCLinuxOS, version 0.92. Speaking for myself, it certainly looks clean enough. Still, it does not really call out for me to install it over and beyond any of the other distributions that I use.

Well as promised here’s my first look at PCLinuxOS 0.92 LiveCD. I’ve been using it now for about a month, and I have to say I’m really impressed with this distribution. It picked up all my hardware, without it being necessary to manually configure my NIC (an annoyance I’ve had with knoppix). The feature that excited me the most is there was a version that came with NVidia drivers so I can run OpenGL stuff right out of the box so to speak. There is also an ATI specific download. Nice feature on Textstar’s part with the optimized video drivers. I’ve basically only played around with it so far, but I can tell you so far I’m impressed with what I’ve tested out.

The first thing you notice right away is the overall look and feel of the interface has been upgraded. Source: Bluescreen Free

[tags]nic,opengl,pclinuxos,livecd,nvidia drivers[/tags]