Did anyone tried PCQuest Linux 2005?? - Page 2

pradeep_chauhan · 18-03-2005, 08:26 PM

I suggest as you are using FC3 do not touch PCQ you will not get any thing new i am sure you already have mp3 and ntfs support. Wait for a few days(monts) let FC4 come out then upgrade FC3 to 4 there is absolutly no point in wasting time over PCQ.

hafees · 19-03-2005, 02:13 AM

Installing & uninstalling linux is not a problem. bcoz everything u installed in ur system will be there when it is reinstalled. So i do it very often. nothing is going to lose. (Also even if u 've some data it should be on the /home. So just don't format that partition. -ofcourse u should 've to use a seperate partition for /home). So i suggest u should try it. it will be lighter than FC3. So i suggest u to replace FC3 with PCQ linux.

enoonmai · 19-03-2005, 12:02 PM

Nah, I have mp3 and NTFS support on FC3, so I think I will just wait for FC4 like pradeep said. Plus, its only until June that I have to wait. I dont particularly feel like using PCQlin2k5 right now. Who needs grid computing and supercomputing modules?

neerajvohra · 19-03-2005, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by pradeep_chauhan

Its based on FC3 and since FC3 is quite "old" nothing new is expected. so i personally am not too much inclined to try it.

Well i tried but totally based on fedora3.just some softwares added and a preety Fame Name "PCQ"
I should name Its Copy Of fedora3!!
Lol

tuxfan · 21-03-2005, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by neerajvohra

Well i tried but totally based on fedora3.just some softwares added and a preety Fame Name "PCQ"
I should name Its Copy Of fedora3!!
Lol

Of course, it is based on FC. Even PCQ don't hide it and they had conducted a poll wherein more people wanted for Fedora than Debian. Actually, PCQ people wanted to let it remain Fedora (or Red Hat). But Red Hat people didn't allow them to do it. They were compelled to rename it. Its based on Fedora so no wonder it will have loads and loads of similarity.

But there is quite a bit of customisation as well, albeit under the hood and may not be too visible. But their effort is commendable!! They run a magazine and are not a software house. They go thru the effort and bundle a distro and also regularly provide support!! And that too for free!

demoninside · 21-03-2005, 01:58 PM

Ya i totaly agree tuxfan

of course if they r saying this that this is based on FC3 that why to tell this thing,

and one more thing they r still doing some work of their own to make linux under the reach of each & every one so pls.. mind it

pradeep_chauhan · 21-03-2005, 11:08 PM

Guys we must give credit where its due. PCQ is the first magazine/source of information about linux. It gave us linux when only a handfull people knew about its existance. Today too its the largest way that people get there linux cd to try out the new flavors. In this respect hats off to these great guys.

tuxfan · 24-03-2005, 11:37 AM

I installed (upgraded) PCQ Linux 2005 y'day in one of my machines. There's hardly any apprent difference. But my USB card reader got immediately recognised

Thats good!! Now I will try my USB printer and scanner too. Then next on agenda is the internal modem.

I will have to do little bit of R&D to see what more is new

firewall · 24-03-2005, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by tuxfan

I installed (upgraded) PCQ Linux 2005....I will have to do little bit of R&D to see what more is new

yes, I can remember when me, tuxfan and others used to playing around with the previous version of pcqlinux for some extra features... that wxperience was good. Now with this new version, one thing is best ... most of the appz are already included and thus saved lotta bandwidth ... otherwise we need to downlod those ..

btw i am sure Tuxfan will come up with more results after his R&D ..

a.m

tuxfan · 25-03-2005, 10:21 AM

Yes, I surely hope to come with some things that would increase my efficiency.

hafees · 25-03-2005, 11:15 PM

now i ve installed nvidia driver also. and 3d desktop switching tool is fun. i ve shown it to some of my frineds and they also want to install PCQ linux 2005 on their system. In my experience it is faster than FC3. and pls dont blame PCQuest. they 've done their best to tweak FC3.
tuxfan.. v r waiting for ur review.

tuxfan · 26-03-2005, 12:03 PM

Sound drivers were working in PCQL 2004, they are not working in PCQL 2005

Thats the first thing that I will have to sort out.

GNUrag · 27-03-2005, 06:09 PM

tuxfan, is your soundcard detected atleast?

BONZI · 27-03-2005, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by pradeep_chauhan

Guys we must give credit where its due. PCQ is the first magazine/source of information about linux. It gave us linux when only a handfull people knew about its existance. Today too its the largest way that people get there linux cd to try out the new flavors. In this respect hats off to these great guys.

yeps my linux life started with PCQ Linux 7.1

. I think to a greater extent PCQ was responsible for the Linux revolution (or is there

) in India. There were the first one (as far as I know) to give a free lunch of Linux.

- Snake - · 28-03-2005, 12:44 AM

This one's for me man! As I am a die hard fan of PCQ, I have installed PCQ and currently facing no problems of any kind...

Some guys were saying that PCQ has nothing to offer more than FC3 but I think thats OK......

moreover I think they are providing some modules more wich are not present in FC3

tuxfan · 28-03-2005, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by GNUrag

tuxfan, is your soundcard detected atleast?

I think it is detected. It tries to play the sample sound but I don't hear anything

Didn't have time to see what's wrong. Hope to do it today. Any help will be highly appreciated

pradeep_chauhan · 28-03-2005, 11:08 AM

Realy a very dumb thing to ask have you unmuted your sound controlls and increase the volume in alsamixer. yuo know one tends to over look this small thing.

tuxfan · 29-03-2005, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by pradeep_chauhan

Realy a very dumb thing to ask have you unmuted your sound controlls and increase the volume in alsamixer. yuo know one tends to over look this small thing.

I guess, there is only one person who is intelligent here. And thats Mr. Pradeep Chauhan

The rest all are fools. Right Mr. Chauhan?

No question is too dumb, only thing is that they are easiest to answer for someone who already has the answer. No one is born with all the required knowledge, including YOU and me! We acquire it as time passes.

Anyway, I will also see the volume in alsamixer as very curtly suggested by the fellow brainiac. But, this is the error that I got while trying to run sndconfig

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You don't seem to be running a kernel with modular sound enabled. (soundcore.o was not found in the module search path). To use sndconfig, you must be running a kernel with modular sound, such as the kernel shipped with Red Hat Linux or a 2.2 or greater kernel

pradeep_chauhan · 29-03-2005, 10:35 AM

Come on I meant its a dumb thing on my part to ask such a simple (as obviously you would have done this) Question Please At no point was i meaning something else and I am realy sorry if i have offened you.

tuxfan · 30-03-2005, 10:19 AM

Sorry, I misunderstood. Peace, peace.

Ashootosh · 30-03-2005, 09:32 PM

I think one credit that must be given to PCQLinux 2k5 is that it recognizes hardware immediatly, unlike some of other Linux that I tried. I think all in all a very gud effort by PCQ team,must give them credit.

hafees · 31-03-2005, 12:10 AM

tuxfan! which sound card do u've?

tuxfan · 31-03-2005, 11:35 AM

:roll: I don't know what I did, but it has started working. I checked alsamixer, it wasn't muted. I tried sndconfig, it gave me an error. I don't know what was wrong and what I did

I sound so stupid, but it has started working while I was fiddling around with some settings in control centre