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Re: PCLinuxOS

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> ____/ philo on Sunday 30 December 2007 23:25 : \____
>
> > I had used PCLinuxOS for quite a while and really liked it.
> > It was installed on an old Celeron-based machine that I really hated.
> >
> > Recently I did an upgrade for a guy ...and took his old XP-3200
mobo/cpu/ram
> > as trade
> > and built a new machine.
> >
> > As long as I was changing things...I figured I might as well try
Mepis...
> > so I blew away my PCLOS and installed Mepis.
> >
> > Decided I did not like it...so downloaded the newest release of PCLOS.
> >
> > On first boot I was (momentarily) shocked to find my old desktop back...
> > along with all my previous settings etc!!!!
> >
> > Of course!  I never formatted my /home partition...
> > so I was all good to go!
>
> Grafting and dropping entire accounts/user directories is also a
> nice 'feature'. Just copy your /home/<user> directory from one computer to
> another and you're good to go. No setup needed. No customisation needed.
This
> means that 'reinstalling'/changing the O/S can be a matter of minutes
(less
> than an hour). With a list of installed software and yum/apt handling
multiple
> installations, this isn't an issue either.
>
> Got to love Linux...
>


Yes!
It's an outstandingly good feature!!!!



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