Welcome to PC/OS

So what's unique regarding PC/OS. It's the first Linux based distribution that provides ease of use out of the box. It provides all multimedia codecs out of the box, an easy to use and simplified interface. Great compatibility with older hardware to help you extend your hardware and software investments. Being based on Ubuntu Linux all software and hardware that is compatible with Ubuntu is compatible with PC/OS. Our mission statement is summed up in two words "Simplified Computing"


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Monday, May 11, 2009

PC/OS Open64 and 10 changes

These are some changes that will be taking place in PC/OS Open64 and 10.  

First and fore most we will be moving up to the updated 9.04 kernel.  This increases hardware compatibility and stability especially on the 64 bit platform.

The web browser is constantly a struggle.  We tend to choose the one that has the best features and what we think the users want and you have spoken and we have listened.  In PC/OS Open64 and PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10, Firefox and Thunderbird will replace Opera.  Opera will remain the default on OpenDesktop 10 and WebStation 10.   The moonlight plugin will also be included we are looking at the Moonlight codec situation, whether to include those or not.

OpenOffice 3.1.0 will be the default office suite with AbiWord and Gnumeric remaining on OpenDesktop

A few more Prism apps will be added, users can tell us which ones they really want to see.

PC/OS Appliance and Webstation will be merged.  Given that hard drive storage on Netbooks have grown and the kiosk features built into XFCE 4.6 we have decided to end Appliance and merge those repositories into Webstation.  This will allow your netbook, should you decide to be the perfect web 2.0 vessel.  We will tailor specific netbook images for different people for a fee, please contact us for pricing.

Usplash is causing conflicts so we have removed it.  We will try to introduce something prettier for users in the near future but considering usplash is more or less for asthetics we dont see this as a big deal.

Any future improvements will be communicated here.

Posted by Roberto J. Dohnert at 7:08 PM

2 comments:

tdwester said...

Can't wait to see the final on this.

May 15, 2009 7:37 AM
williamg said...

I love PC/OS, its by far the best UNIX system in the world. I was a pure Debian user until I found this one. One Im glad to see you guys are going back to your roots some and the progress on PC/OS has been amazing. It took Linux Mint years to put out a 64 bit release and its only taken the PC/OS team 1 year. With PC/OS BeOS lives on, Zeven OS has been a waste of time. In my opinion you deserve the respect you have earned and much success to you guys.

May 17, 2009 9:13 PM

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PC/OS Roots

PC/OS roots are derived from the Ubuntu distribution. Ubuntu is created and maintained by Canonical Inc. and has a vast community support system. By basing PC/OS on this outstanding base we cover two grounds, a lot of the problems and fixes are in line with Ubuntu. Many fixes for Ubuntu and Xubuntu work on PC/OS. All software compiled for Ubuntu runs on PC/OS and should anything happen to PC/OS users can still get their fixes from Canonical and maintain their distribution and makes the migration smoother. The desktop is based off of XFCE and is laid out similar to the BeOS. PC/OS does not aim to be a ground up reimplementation of the BeOS but to be as simple to use as the BeOS was. The XFCE desktop is light,modern and powerful. It can be used to power the newest workstations as well as older hardware allowing you to get the maximum potential out of your investment.

What can I do with PC/OS

It is your computer, do with it what you want. if you want to watch that Windows Media file, go right ahead. Your music files not in .ogg, thats fine by us. Do you want to watch that flash video on YouTube? go ahead.

Of course, we do encourage the open route. Open Source doesn't survive without contribution but you as users should have the freedom to do whatever it is you want to do.

We also encourage consistency. XFCE is our desktop, not GNOME, not KDE, not TWM, not PWM. of course in accordance with our first part of the mission statement the others are available for download and installation.