PLD is a free, RPM-based Linux distribution, aimed at the more advanced users and administrators, who accept the tradeoffs of using a system, that might require manual tweaking in exchange for much flexibility. Simultaneous availability for a wide variety of architectures and non-conservative approach to RPM usage provides our users with a consistent environment on almost all available architectures. More details are available in the about section.

PLD Th migrated from unmaintained rpm 4.5 to rpm 5.4.x from rpm5.org.
Information about important changes is available here: RPM 5 quick guide

The 6 year old unmaintained MoinMoin installation at http://www.pld-linux.org/ is replaced with fresh DokuWiki installation.

Authentication is based on CVS password login hashes.

Today we released the first snapshot of PLD/Linux Th, called 2012. It is available on ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/dists/th/2012/PLD/ and as poldek sources th-2012. Please give mirrors 24 hours to synchronize.

The main highlights of this release are:

• kernel 3.0.42 with grsecurity support and 3.4.10 without grsecurity
• basic systemd support (systemd works, but a lot of services do not have native units)
• GCC 4.7.1
• glibc 2.16
• java-sun 1.6 thus safe from recent exploits
• libreoffice 3.6.0.4
• iceweasel/icedove 15.0 and iceape 2.12
• XFCE 4.10
• GNOME 3.4
• KDE 4.9.0

Two major changes happened during the past few weeks:

1. A new Release Manager has been elected for PLD's main branch (TH). Jan Rękorajski took over after Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, who previously held the position for many years, resigned over a month ago. In the words of the new RM, he's not going to make drastic changes [to] the current continuous development model.

2. After too many years with CVS, the main package repository has finally been switched to a modern distributed version control system – git. Developers should refer to relevant list threads. Simultaneously a near real-time mirror has been created on the well known git hosting site, github. People accustomed to github's features, or just wanting a functional backup in case git.pld-linux.org ever goes down, are encouraged to make use of the mirror. (Note: there's over 16k packages in our repository, so the site takes a long while to load; if you just want to browse a bit, it's much faster to use the github link.)

Many developers and users can be found on freenode IRC network. PLD uses channel #pld. You need to register with freenode nickserv service to be able to enter channel.

Upcoming PLD kernels (>= 3.0.13-2) will have PAE enabled on 32bit i686 kernels by default. Such kernel will run only on processors that support PAE (grep pae /proc/cpuinfo to verify). If your CPU doesn't support PAE then you have to switch to PLD i486 kernel.

PLD Th saw few major package updates in last year including switch to kernel 3.x as usually available on ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/

It's got a full under the hood software refresh as well as an updated PLD Live Installer. Read more on the official website http://kde4.livecd.pld-linux.org/

The latest live CD with KDE4 features a graphical installer. Read more what's new on the official website http://kde4.livecd.pld-linux.org/

Hi! Without further explanation I present the second stable PLD-LiveCD and LiveUSB with K Desktop Environment… For more details visit http://kde4.livecd.pld-linux.org/

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