The best release for the year 2007

vaithy,

I do agree with you   

 PCLinuxOS 2007
 Granular FunWorks
 Mint 4.0


  I believe Clem of Mint has mentioned that he is not planning of moving from Ubuntu Base, but will be releasing Debian and Fedora experimental  Distros,
because of his interest in doing so and maybe incorporating some facets of those experiments into the continuing Base.

 Please continue on with the Path that was originally imagined for Granular and All Those who do venture here.....
will realize its reason for being.

PCLinuxOS 2007
 Granular FunWorks
 Mint 4.0


  I believe Clem of Mint has mentioned that he is not planning of moving from Ubuntu Base, but will be releasing Debian and Fedora experimental  Distros,
because of his interest in doing so and maybe incorporating some facets of those experiments into the continuing Base.

 Please continue on with the Path that was originally imagined for Granular and All Those who do venture here.....
will realize its reason for being.

In all probability, the next Granular release will be based on PCLinuxOS only. So, relax. 

Anurag,
Thanks for disclosing this nice truth!

I would like to inform everybody in this forum that I feel Granular aims to be the best usable desktop possible. Am I right? As long long this motto is there, I don't see any reason to move from PCLinuxOS base. I have used both Mandriva and PCLinuxOS as a home desktop/laptop user. I do my chore of computing (involving word processing, image manipulation, audio recording and conversion, a/v playback and conversion, some web work) and my kid nephew (aged 10) plays some small games, movies and audios. We use it like anything. Both me and my nephew have never come across any annoyance on PCLinuxOS. But with Mandriva we have faced many big and minute annoyances. I don't know mandriva may be more cutting edge but not as usable and/or stable.

For a 30 year adult user and a 10 year kid feel computing on PCLinuxOS is a no-brainer thing. It's so easy! Need I say anymore?

You have done nice decision not to move from pclos.

Best wishes!

PCLinuxOS 2007
 Granular FunWorks
 Mint 4.0


  I believe Clem of Mint has mentioned that he is not planning of moving from Ubuntu Base, but will be releasing Debian and Fedora experimental  Distros,
because of his interest in doing so and maybe incorporating some facets of those experiments into the continuing Base.

 Please continue on with the Path that was originally imagined for Granular and All Those who do venture here.....

In all probability, the next Granular release will be based on PCLinuxOS only. So, relax. 

 Thanks Anurag, as I am actually more relaxed, thanks of course, to Granular Funworks and the immediate,
nearly effortless Ease of Use and Performance! Fun WORKS 

Well, if PCLOS going to use newer kernel no problems for me...At present the kernel used by both PCLOS and Granular  has some issue with SATA drivers, and installation hangs in some PCs and DVD is not bootable...So I hope your next version will probably address it.. another issue is synaptic package manager very slow in PCLOS so in granular..is there any way you are going to include gnome desktop  ? ..Since PCLOS is using KDE SAM is using XFCE, granular should have some default desktop either Gnome or enlightment  ( so no body is saying granular is cloning PCLOS.. I used XFCE in vector and SAM but somehow I don't like the XFCE in xubuntu and Granular..

The next version will expectedly solve these issues.

Granular's default DE has always been KDE and it will remain like that, no matter what the others (critics) say.

Vaithy, there's an interesting GNOME remaster of PCLOS which you would want to try. Check it out here: http://www.linuxgator.org/Gnome/gnome_page/gnome.html

There is a PCLinuxOS Gnome Remaster already. Visit http://linuxgator.org/
I think Granular is a good project with two great desktop options - KDE and Xfce.

Granular's default DE has always been KDE and it will remain like that, no matter what the others (critics) say.

You have my full hearted agreement over this. I am convinced KDE has quite the strongest future.

Aqua

It is not because  that I don't like KDE .. from the day I learn linux from fedora core ver-2 , I always select Kde as my default DE since fedora is favourd to Gnome..Now I am writing this posting with out my harddisk..( it would not able to boot as the message from'no bootable media found..'check cable' appear' in the screen.. despite changing cable several time same problem reported.. so I try vasrious live CDs which will really boot or browse , Suse 10.3, PclinuxOS, granular all of them take so much time...and both PClinux and Granular is asking same stupid question about country networking etc.,.. So simply poppedout the puppy linux cd and it seamonkey browser has very fastest loading the pages.. is simply a treat to watch.. that is why I am thinking, .. if it is not the same question and answer season in every time boot with linux cd i'll tired out .. that is why I am thinking you may avoid the question season in the live version, and configured automatic everything in the boot time itself.. or you may follow the example set by the Dreamlinux version which has a multible tabular form in a single pagess there you configure,chose the partition, network configuration all in one click.. everything is done in a whip of time....Also must of myfriends are having only 128 Ram old machine but not  all the eycandy effect with kde desktop... my excuse to them that kde need atleast more than 256 DDR- Ram..wouldn't worked out them as they simply ask if windows can work why not in linux...

Vaithy,
Your point makes a lot of sense! If it's a liveCD it should not ask those regular question like network, user info, etc. It should boot right to the desktop. Of course, during HD-install it should definitely ask these questions. Hope someday we will have a LiveCD that just boots to the desktop without any user-intervention.