Hands-on with PCLinuxOS 2014.05 (ZDNet)
J.A. Watson takes the recent release of PCLinuxOS for
a spin.
If you are not familiar with the Full Monty version, take a look at the description of it on the download page. It is an interesting concept, as you might assume from the name it includes a lot of packages, applications and drivers which are not in the standard distribution. The really interesting bit, though, is the activity-focused virtual desktop configuration. The intention is to make using PCLinuxOS easy and fun, by providing the following desktops, each with its own specific wallpaper:
- Internet — browser, email, chat, IM
- Work — Office, kile, scribus
- Play — games
- Multimedia — music, video, editing and composing
- Graphics and Images — scan, edit, draw
- Administration — System management tasks