Bill Reynolds from the PCLinuxOS development team announced yesterday evening (April 20th) the immediate availability of the highly anticipated PCLinuxOS 2010 operating system. With a Linux kernel 2.6.32.11 (with BFS scheduler) on board, the new version provides ISO images for all tastes: GNOME, GNOME ZenMini, KDE, Xfce, LXDE and even Enlightenment E17 fans. PCLinuxOS 2010 has improved support for Nvidia and ATI graphics cards, support for popular printer models, lots of bleeding-edge applications and over 60 translations.
"But wait there is more! In addition to our regular KDE 4 release we also have other desktops available such as PCLinuxOS Gnome featuring the Gnome 2.30.0 desktop., LXDE, XFCE and Enlightenment E-17 releases for older computers are also available. There is something available for everyone!" - Bill Reynolds said in the official release announcement.
Highlights of PCLinuxOS 2010:
· Linux kernel 2.6.32.11 (with the BFS scheduler); · KDE Software Compiltion 4.4.2; · GNOME 2.30.0; · Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3; · Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.4; · Pidgin 2.6.6; · KMyMoney; · KTorrent; · The GIMP; · Digikam; · Amarok; · SMPlayer; · ...and many more!
About PCLinuxOS
PCLinuxOS was founded six years ago, in October of 2003, by a company called Texstar, located in Houston, Texas. The PCLinuxOS distribution comes in the form of a Live CD, but it can also be permanently installed on a hard disk drive. PCLinuxOS uses the APT package manager and its Synaptic GUI (Graphical User Interface) frontend. At the moment, PCLinuxOS 2010 is available only for 32-bit machines!
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