Pclinuxos on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/pclinuxos/ Recent content in Pclinuxos on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:01:29 +0000 Review: PCLinuxOS 2009 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/08/01/review-pclinuxos-2009/ Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:01:29 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2009/08/01/review-pclinuxos-2009/ <p><em>note:  I started writing this months ago when I did the installation and now I am finishing up by looking at the installed distro.</em> PCLinuxOS started as an extra set of packages for Mandriva.  Interesting because Mandriva originally started as a KDE version of Red Hat.  Eventually, it became its own distro.  It became very, very popular around the same time as Ubuntu - give or take a few months.  There was a time where you couldn&rsquo;t read a Linux review without someone in the comments suggesting you should check out PC Linux OS.  (Kinda like what I see happening with ArchLinux nowadays)  The distro built up lots of steam and in 2007 seemed as though it could potentially steal Ubuntu&rsquo;s thunder.  Then it suddenly dissapeared from mention.  There wasn&rsquo;t a full-fledged 2008 release.  According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pclinuxos">its wikipedia page</a>, PCLinuxOS has twice forked from Mandriva.  So, while it was based on Mandriva at that point in time, it has since diverged into its own distinct distro.  This is a very interesting distinction because this month I am also reviewing Mandriva 2009.1 and I had to postpone that review because it wouldn&rsquo;t load up.  PCLinuxOS, on the other hand, did load up.  First up I had to choose my keyboard type.</p>

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