Do you suffer from SDS?
Almost all men experience anxiety about the size or appearance of their distro at some time. For most men, these feelings will pass but, for others, they can be persistent and disabling. A man's concern about his small distro can lead to avoidance of lan parties, coffee shops and other activities where other men might see his small desktop distro. Such men are not only embarrassed by the apparent smallness of their distro, but frequently also feel ashamed and silly about their anxiety, too. If you're tired of suffering from Small Distro Syndrone (SDS), we have help available now! Get a super large distro! Be the envy of other men! 100% guaranteed!
www.pclinuxos.com
The most common side effects with PCLinuxOS were headache and upset stomach. Eye Strain and wrist ache were also reported, sometimes with delayed onset. Most men weren't bothered by the side effects enough to stop using PCLinuxOS. As with any distro, in the rare event of a configuration session lasting more than 4 hours, seek immediate geek help to avoid long-term downtime.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
PCLinuxOS now on myspace.
I took some time last week and set up a pclinuxos myspace account to help promote PCLinuxOS. If you get a minute give it a quick look or even better add yourself as a friend. I have posted some pictures of the desktop as well as pictures of most of our development team.
www.myspace.com/pclinuxos
I took some time last week and set up a pclinuxos myspace account to help promote PCLinuxOS. If you get a minute give it a quick look or even better add yourself as a friend. I have posted some pictures of the desktop as well as pictures of most of our development team.
www.myspace.com/pclinuxos
Saturday, August 04, 2007
PCLinuxOS - A little walk down history lane
In the summer of 2003 I became interested in livecd technology after looking at knoppix and a fresh distribution from a fellow named Warren called Mepis. I was interested in helping Warren with Mepis at the time but I had no clue how to build Deb files. Coming from 5 years of packaging rpms and not really wanting to learn a new packaging system I happened to come across a South African fellow by the name of Jaco Greef. He was developing a script called mklivecd and porting it to Mandrake Linux. I along with Buchanan Milne (Mandrake contributor) and a few others began working with Jaco to help debug the scripts. I got an idea to make a livecd based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 along with all my customizations just for fun. I had previously provided an unofficial 3rd party repository for the users of Mandrake for many years but had since parted ways. Since Mandrake was a trademarked name myself and others decided to name the livecd after our news site and forum pclinuxonline thus PCLinuxOS.
Preview .3 was my first attempt to make a livecd. I distributed it initially to about 20 people to get their reaction and feedback. Everyone who tested it loved the livecd but there was one thing missing. There wasn't a way to install the thing to the hard drive! srlinuxx from tuxmachines.org came up with a novel way to copy the livecd to the hard drive and posted it on our forums. Jaco utilized this information and inspiration from the Mepis installer and wrote a pyqt script to make the livecd installable thus the birth of a new distribution.
On October 24, 2003, PCLinuxOS Preview .4 was released as a fork of Linux Mandrake (Mandriva) 9.2 utilizing mklivecd scripts from Jaco Greef, a multimedia kernel from Thomas Buckland (2.4.22-tmb) and a customized KDE (3.1.4-tex). Preview .5 through .93 were built upon on previous PCLinuxOS releases. After 3 years of updating one release from the other using the same gcc and glibc core library we found too many programs would no longer compile or work properly against this aging code base.
In November 2006 we utilized a one time source code snapshot from our friends at Mandriva to pull in an updated glibc/gcc core and associated libraries. We spent the following 6 months rebuilding, debugging, customizing, patching and updating our new code base. We pulled in stuff from our old code base, utilized patches/code from Fedora, Gentoo and Debian just to name a few. This is why you will never see me distro bashing as it would be hypocritical to do such a thing since we are still dependent in many areas on other distros development processes due to our limited but hard working volunteer development team.
On May 20th 2007 we felt we had reached a pretty stable base and released PCLinuxOS 2007 utilizing our own kernel from Oclient1, KDE built by MDE developer Ze, updated mklivecd scripts from IKerekes & Ejtr, a heavily patched Control Center, graphics from the PCLinuxOS beautification team and many application updates from Thac and Neverstopdreaming. Development continues as work is being done for a Minime release and an international DVD. A future release of PCLinuxOS will feature an updated kernel, KDE 4, fresh Xorg server and all the latest applications. All in all it has been a great ride and we have made many friends along the way. Some have gone on to other distributions and many are still here from our first release. As I've always said, we're just enjoying Linux technology and sharing it with friends who might like it too. We hope you have enjoyed the ride as well.
In the summer of 2003 I became interested in livecd technology after looking at knoppix and a fresh distribution from a fellow named Warren called Mepis. I was interested in helping Warren with Mepis at the time but I had no clue how to build Deb files. Coming from 5 years of packaging rpms and not really wanting to learn a new packaging system I happened to come across a South African fellow by the name of Jaco Greef. He was developing a script called mklivecd and porting it to Mandrake Linux. I along with Buchanan Milne (Mandrake contributor) and a few others began working with Jaco to help debug the scripts. I got an idea to make a livecd based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 along with all my customizations just for fun. I had previously provided an unofficial 3rd party repository for the users of Mandrake for many years but had since parted ways. Since Mandrake was a trademarked name myself and others decided to name the livecd after our news site and forum pclinuxonline thus PCLinuxOS.
Preview .3 was my first attempt to make a livecd. I distributed it initially to about 20 people to get their reaction and feedback. Everyone who tested it loved the livecd but there was one thing missing. There wasn't a way to install the thing to the hard drive! srlinuxx from tuxmachines.org came up with a novel way to copy the livecd to the hard drive and posted it on our forums. Jaco utilized this information and inspiration from the Mepis installer and wrote a pyqt script to make the livecd installable thus the birth of a new distribution.
On October 24, 2003, PCLinuxOS Preview .4 was released as a fork of Linux Mandrake (Mandriva) 9.2 utilizing mklivecd scripts from Jaco Greef, a multimedia kernel from Thomas Buckland (2.4.22-tmb) and a customized KDE (3.1.4-tex). Preview .5 through .93 were built upon on previous PCLinuxOS releases. After 3 years of updating one release from the other using the same gcc and glibc core library we found too many programs would no longer compile or work properly against this aging code base.
In November 2006 we utilized a one time source code snapshot from our friends at Mandriva to pull in an updated glibc/gcc core and associated libraries. We spent the following 6 months rebuilding, debugging, customizing, patching and updating our new code base. We pulled in stuff from our old code base, utilized patches/code from Fedora, Gentoo and Debian just to name a few. This is why you will never see me distro bashing as it would be hypocritical to do such a thing since we are still dependent in many areas on other distros development processes due to our limited but hard working volunteer development team.
On May 20th 2007 we felt we had reached a pretty stable base and released PCLinuxOS 2007 utilizing our own kernel from Oclient1, KDE built by MDE developer Ze, updated mklivecd scripts from IKerekes & Ejtr, a heavily patched Control Center, graphics from the PCLinuxOS beautification team and many application updates from Thac and Neverstopdreaming. Development continues as work is being done for a Minime release and an international DVD. A future release of PCLinuxOS will feature an updated kernel, KDE 4, fresh Xorg server and all the latest applications. All in all it has been a great ride and we have made many friends along the way. Some have gone on to other distributions and many are still here from our first release. As I've always said, we're just enjoying Linux technology and sharing it with friends who might like it too. We hope you have enjoyed the ride as well.
Friday, July 06, 2007
Got me a new job!
The pay isn't that great but the fringe benefits are outstanding. You can read about it here.
The pay isn't that great but the fringe benefits are outstanding. You can read about it here.
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