[Leaplist] Why do you recommend pclinuxos?

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Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> I think it's 2 or 3 years now that you've been recommending pclinuxos. For a 
> guy who tests 100 distros, 2 to 3 years is a long time to recommend a single 
> distro. Tell us why you like it so much.
>
> IIRC, Pclinuxos is Mandrake derived, which of course would favor me, given 
> that I've used Mandrake/Mandriva since June 2000.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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I am still testing out all the distros that I can get my hands on, but 
the startups are few, now. 

Recently did Mepis, Ultimate BootCD, Multi-Boot CD, and returned to 
DSL.  Some haven't moved off the spot they occupied, one to two years ago!

Pclinuxos or, 'PCLOS' is about to explode with p94 in 2007.  I walked 
into Costco, and p93 booted and ran on everything there.  So did DSL.

But, PCLOS has all the big applications.  It also still contains XMMS.  
Offers the other 14 audio players.

It just works!  And, most of my 'customers' are recent  refugees from 
very bad and evil experiences due to Microsoft vulnerabilities.

Not as bad as this,   
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070106/NEWS01/701060312/1002/NEWS17  
but, almost!

There is some talk on 20/20 about it.  Now, we have all the hoopla about 
the NSAKEY!  And other 'backdoors'.  even on the MSDN, whether any 
developer would do such a thing!

Anyway, Vista bloat is a mandate to get out there and know at least one 
distro so well, that when people see you demonstrate it, they'll think 
you wrote the thing!

And, it best be a distro that is very much like 'windows' in the games, 
and programs, offerings.  Something fairly foolproof.  And, something 
that 'finds' wifi, too!  So, PCLOS is it, for now!  I would love it to 
be Debian based Knoppix, or even, Debian!  But, it isn't.

Texstar was the applications developer/integrator at Mandriva, and now, 
is the lead on PCLOS.  The web site has a user friendly forum, the docs 
and MAN are easily accessed.  It has been said in reviews that PCLinuxOS 
is Mandriva done right! 

Hey, I work with, I use, over 30 different distros, plus some *BSDs, 
but, those  are in my tool kit. 
There isn't time to try to 'fix'  things that are designed wrong.  I 
don't have time for that.  So, folks are right to want it to just work.
PCLOS comes closest to that ideal.