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I did a little writeup on running PCLinuxOS 2008 on my ThinkPad T61. See what you think:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2008 ... nkpad-t61/

rm wrote:I did a little writeup on running PCLinuxOS 2008 on my ThinkPad T61. See what you think:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2008 ... nkpad-t61/

Thanks very much for the nicely detailed review. I have messed around with various Linux distros for years and they certainly have improved a whole lot, as you stated in your article.

The Ubuntu variants and PCLinux verions seem to be the top two right now, in my opinion.

It's interesting to see that Lenovo is now supporting Suse as an operating system.

I wish it was easier to do simple copy and paste functions and backups in Linux without the confusing and geeky "glert slash bleep bleep" commands that make no sense to me. And yes, I do use CMD menu tasks in Windows with good results, because those -make sense- to me. Robocopy for example is so simple and elegant. Why can't Linux have something like that. Where is a nice intuitive copy program like SyncbackSE that one could use in Linux?

Yes, I have scoured the repositories (spelling?) while in Linux and only found a few oddball apps for backup and restore.
Also, more work needs to be done on making wireless setup clearer and easier to do.

Oh, and when I tried to install PCLinuxOS onto my hard drive I was presented with a couple of completely mystifying windows with some menu choices that made no sense to me. The ensuring confusion caused me to have to abort the install and re-try FOUR TIMES before I got it right, by accident. This is not the way to make Linux attractive to a new user.

Ubuntu didn't do that. It just went about its business and plut the OS on my hard drive without a fuss. Guess which distro created the most likeability for me as a new user, eh?

But again, thanks for the work you put into creating your article about your Linux install experience.

mgo wrote:

rm wrote:I did a little writeup on running PCLinuxOS 2008 on my ThinkPad T61. See what you think:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2008 ... nkpad-t61/

Thanks very much for the nicely detailed review. I have messed around with various Linux distros for years and they certainly have improved a whole lot, as you stated in your article.

The Ubuntu variants and PCLinux verions seem to be the top two right now, in my opinion.

It's interesting to see that Lenovo is now supporting Suse as an operating system.

I wish it was easier to do simple copy and paste functions and backups in Linux without the confusing and geeky "glert slash bleep bleep" commands that make no sense to me. And yes, I do use CMD menu tasks in Windows with good results, because those -make sense- to me. Robocopy for example is so simple and elegant. Why can't Linux have something like that. Where is a nice intuitive copy program like SyncbackSE that one could use in Linux?

Yes, I have scoured the repositories (spelling?) while in Linux and only found a few oddball apps for backup and restore.
Also, more work needs to be done on making wireless setup clearer and easier to do.

Oh, and when I tried to install PCLinuxOS onto my hard drive I was presented with a couple of completely mystifying windows with some menu choices that made no sense to me. The ensuring confusion caused me to have to abort the install and re-try FOUR TIMES before I got it right, by accident. This is not the way to make Linux attractive to a new user.

Ubuntu didn't do that. It just went about its business and plut the OS on my hard drive without a fuss. Guess which distro created the most likeability for me as a new user, eh?

But again, thanks for the work you put into creating your article about your Linux install experience.

Wow, you are making regret not having mentioned anything about the install process. They have slimed it down to one question, what keyboard layout you want. Every thing else is done after the installation, including the addition of users. So, maybe you should give this new one a try.

As for backups, I use a combination of grsync and 7sqz. 7sqz is a little compression tool I wrote. You can read about it here:

http://temporaryland.wordpress.com/2008 ... published/

But, there are some other good, more traditional, backup tools available.

If you want to know why I do it the way I do it, I explained it here:

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=33490.0