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DATE | 2007-03-21 |
FROM | Ron Guerin
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SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] TODAY! NYLUG Wednesday 21 March General Meeting Presents: Ira Hyman
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Anyone who wishes to attend tonight should use the entrance at 9th Ave. & 15th St.
- Ron
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [nylug-announce] TODAY! NYLUG Wednesday 21 March General Meeting Presents: Ira Hyman -on- PCLinuxOS Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:00:01 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bacall Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG To: NYLUG Announcements
REMINDER: If not already on the RSVP list, you can sign-in manually at the desk.
Ira Hyman on PCLinuxOS
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 ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list nylug-announce-at-nylug.org http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce
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