[nylug-announce] NYLUG Wednesday 21 March General Meeting Presents: Ira Hyman -on- PCLinuxOS

[John Bacall]

Ira Hyman will appear Wednesday March 21st at the New York Linux Users
Group and present on PCLinuxOS. 

PCLinuxOS wears inspiration from prior Linux OSes. It has borrowings
from Debian, SuSE live-cd, Knoppix, Mandriva, nee Mandrake, Ubuntu.

PCLinuxOS is dedicated to the desktop for home, small business use.
However, like any good little *nix it does do server duty, but its
creator wanted in effect a pretty (powerful) OS -his- way. And so the
creation began. 

Based on Debian (our favorite anarchic underachiever) and its packaging
system APT, although swathed with a simpler frontend, package choice and
installation is easy, powerful. Upgrading the system when necessary
consequently is smooth and non destructive. A la Debian. 

PCLinuxOS comes in a live-CD version. Place in drive, kick tires about,
remove CD, reboot and your system is unchanged. 

The user is equipped with all standard desktop applications. To quote
Ira: ``PCLinuxOS comes fully equipped with just about everything a
desktop user would want in an operating system. Browse the web, send and
receive emails, chat with friends on Yahoo, MSN, AOL and IRC. Play
games, listen to music, share files, rip CDs and watch videos. You can
also burn CDs, DVDs, import, view and edit pictures. Our office suite
allows you to write letters, do spreadsheets, drawings and slide
presentations. Everything you can do with that other OS you can do in
PCLinuxOS without worrying about virus infections, adware or spyware.''

PCLinuxOS does multimedia well. Reading the documentation it clearly
strives to give the user easy, out-of-the-box play that funky media file
now functionality. If I wanted a powerful desktop Linux, to play video,
sound, music, incorporation of KDE's desktop environment, a focus to
strive for excellence in its niche, and a history of commitment to all
these and more I would come to this meeting. 

On Wednesday March 21st 2007, Ira Hyman, Director of LinuxLoft.com
development team, will present at NYLUG about the vision, goals and
technical considerations of this "amazing" version of Linux. As a Bonus
Ira will reveal personal findings on a little know method of financing
your inner entrepreneur.

More Info:
http://pclinuxos.com
http://www.pclinuxonline.com/wiki/HomePage
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS
http://www.mypclinuxos.com/
ira at linuxloft.com