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PCLinuxOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for many popular
graphics and sound cards, as well as other peripheral devices. The bootable live DVD
provides an easy-to-use graphical installer and the distribution sports a wide range of
popular applications for the typical desktop user, including browser plugins and full multimedia
playback. The intuitive system configuration tools include Synaptic for package management,
Addlocale to add support to many languages and Mylivecd to create a customised live CD.
The November 2021 Issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine
The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the November 2021
issue.
In the November 2021 issue:
Happy 25th Birthday, KDE! GIMP Tutorial: Common GIMP Mistakes
Softmaker FreeOffice 2021 On PCLinuxOS Short Topix: Google Chrome Could Break Ad
Blockers Facial Recognition: The New Digital Menace
Life’s Better When You Avoid Windows 11
PCLinuxOS , which emerged from a fork in 2003 from the French operating system Mandrake
Linux , later also Mandriva Linux, is an old-school Linux distribution. With the latest software,
but without the process ID (“Daemon”) Systemd, it focuses primarily on the desktop
PC.
PCLinuxOS is here to stay PCLinuxOS has been published for over 18 years
by the developer Bill Reynolds alias "Texstar", who published the first self-compiled RPM
packages for Mandrake Linux via his repository "PCLinuxOnline" in 2000. The operating system
enjoys great trust within the Linux community. PCLinuxOS is still very popular because of
its simplicity and ease of use.
The US distribution was one of the first to adapt the APT package management system, which
is essentially based on Debian GNU / Linux, and combine it in connection with the RPM
package management system in the APT-RPM variant with the GTK + -based Synaptic user interface
.
The project has the following highlights for the latest release PCLinuxOS 2021.11, consisting
of the latest software packages and current desktops:
VLC 3.0.16 Linux 5.14.16
LibreOffice 7.2.2 Mozilla Firefox 94.0.1
Mozilla Thunderbird 91.3.0 MATE Desktop 1.24.1
KDE Plasma 5.23.2 Openbox 3.6.1
Xfce 4.16.0 Based on the current operating system kernel
Linux 5.14.16 and equipped with the two current desktops KDE Plasma 5.23 and Xfce 4.16 , PCLinuxOS
traditionally places great emphasis on compatibility with hardware configurations, pre-installed
media codecs and support for multimedia formats.
Also especially interesting for gamers The free graphics library Mesa 3D , which
has received various new features for gaming under Linux with Mesa 21.2.0 and is available
in the latest version 21.2.5 under PCLinuxOS 21.11, is also intended to appeal to gamers.
The latest version of the powerful graphics library also supports the PCIe technology
Resizable BAR alias Smart Access Memory (test) and fully complies with the Khronos test for
Vulkan API 1.2 .
Mesa 3D v21.x officially supports SAM on Zen 3 and RDNA 2 and also offers an optimization
of the L3 cache of Zen processors, the so-called " L3 cache pinning ", which can also lead
to an increase in performance.
Mesa optimizes PCLinuxOS for various games Several games have received better support
through Mesa 3D v21.x, including well-known titles such as Desperados III, Shadow of the
Tomb Raider (test) , Nioh 2, The Surge 2, The Witcher, Rage 2, Overwatch (benchmark)
, The Elder Scrolls Online and Death Stranding (test) as well as Metal Gear Solid V: The
Phantom Pain, WoW, Minecraft, Mafia III, Quake III Arena and numerous other titles.
There were optimizations and bug fixes with the release Mesa 21.2.0 according to the official
release notes for the following 16 games:
RuneScape Metro Exodus
Cyberpunk 2077 Nuclear Thrones
Unreal Tournament Euro Truck Simulator 2
Rise of the Tomb Raider Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus Assassin's Creed Odyssey
Mount & Blade: Warband Golf with Your Friends
Resident Evil Village SCARLET NEXUS
Doom (2016) CS: GO
Mesa 21.2.0 Release Notes In the run-up to the release of the Steam
Deck , Valve's Handheld with Zen 2 and RDNA 2 from 419 euros, which wants to establish
an operating system based on Linux with Stream, Proton for gamers with SteamOS 3.0, the suitability
of Linux for gaming is significantly optimized.
Conscious renunciation of systemd PCLinuxOS has always done without the not
undisputed init process Systemd and instead relies on a replica of SysVinit as process
ID 1, which is the first to be started by the Linux kernel.
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