PCLinux and Cutefish Linux

What is PCLinuxOS?

PCLinuxOS is a free easy to use Linux-based Operating System for x86_64 desktops or laptops.

PCLinuxOS is distributed as a LiveCD/DVD/USB ISO image, and can also be installed to your computer. The LiveCD/DVD/USB mode lets you try PCLInuxOS without making any changes to your computer. If you like it, you can install the operating system to your hard drive. Locally installed versions of PCLinuxOS utilize the Advanced Packaging Tool (or APT), a package management system (originally from the Debian distribution), together with Synaptic, a GUI frontend to APT for easy software installation. PCLinuxOS has over 12,000 rpm software packages available from our software repository.

PCLinuxOS has a script called mylivecd, which allows the user to take a ‘snapshot’ of their current hard drive installation (all settings, applications, documents, etc.) and compress it into an ISO CD/DVD/USB image. This allows easy backup of a user’s data and also makes it easy to create your own custom liveCD/DVD/USB.

PCLinuxOS has additional support for over 85 language through our simple Addlocale interface.

PCLinuxOS is safe and secure. You never have to worry about viruses, adware, malware or trojans infecting your computer with PCLinuxOS.

The PCLinuxOS distribution was founded October 24, 2003 by Bill Reynolds aka Texstar and headquarters are located in Houston, TX USA.

What can I do with PCLinuxOS?

Everything you do with that other OS you can do with PCLinuxOS.

Internet tools : PCLinuxOS comes with a complete internet suite for surfing the net, sending and receiving email, instant messaging , blogging , tweeting and watching online video.

Photos: Edit photographs, upload and mange your photo collections with GIMP and Picasa software applications.

Music and Video: Listen, organize and stream mp3 music from your desktop. Sync your mp3 player with your music collection. Listen to streaming internet radio. Watch Youtube videos. Watch TV shows and movies online as well as DVDs. Design DVD slide shows and more. PCLinuxOS is a full multimedia operating system.

Productivity: LibreOffice allows you to edit documents, create presentations, work on spreadsheets, graphics and is available in many languages. Installation is easy through our LibreOffice Manager utility.

Where can I get a copy of PCLinuxOS?

Let me dish out Cutefish Linux to begin with.

It looks attractive but lacks functionality including WiFi connectivity.

There are enough bloated up Linux distributions already available what one is going to achieve by bringing another NEW Desktop Environment?

For me functionality is the base

Is somebody going to use it as a Daily Driver?

Lot of Linux distributions have gone dormant and I have no objections for them to be revived (they lost the user base and they could not keep their community intact). 

In additions, due to squabbling of some developers on trivial things, may have disrupted their developer energy. 

This should not happen in TQM style.

In Quality Management philosophy what matters is not an individual but the team.

The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The Philosophy

Bill  Reynolds

 Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Bill  Reynolds who was known as the Texstar (not the Cathedral and Bazaar guy) who left PCLinux Project when 64 bit version came to the market in 10 April, 2013. 

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

Eric S. Raymond

Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is an American Software Developer, open source software advocate and the author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. 

He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, published as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Raymond was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1957 and lived in Venezuela as a child. His family moved to Pennsylvania in 1971. He developed cerebral palsy at birth; his weakened physical condition motivated him to go into computing.

Raymond began his programming career writing proprietary software, between 1980 and 1985. In 1990, noting that the Jargon File had not been maintained since about 1983, he adopted it, but not without criticism.

Now I come to PCLinux my heart throb that went into hibernation when Textstar gave up.

Eric Steven Raymond (ESR), he is not the Texstar but the Cathedral and Bazaar and the open source activist with a lot of political baggage in him.

The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a guy better known as "Texstar".

When he went Everything Collapsed and I gave up on PCLinux and moved to Debian where I remain to this day.

A good leader always leave behind a good team with capable hands.

In the corporate sector, even if the product is bad, like Microsoft Windows, the guys and girls hang on to the chips and a lot of money is exchanged, in between. 

They thrive on advertisements and Glossy appearance.

The Chines DeepIn is very glossy but a very poor product. 

This is what CuteFish guys and girls should consider. DeepIn guys survive due to state sponsorship and with the Windows Outage Russia and China survived. Russian Star Linux is not a good product.

Can the Cutefish guys and girls do the same when a catastrophe ensues?

That is my Big question.

Coming back to PCLinux;

It seems like it is revived in Turkey and Brazil.

KDE desktop seems neat and not bloated like Plasma but it could not configure our WiFi.

It's graphical Installer which is similar to Mandrake (now defunct) was pretty impressive then and the new one is even better.

They were bit late and I have chosen Netrunner as my second choice to Gnome which seamlessly integrates with Gnome.

Besides it supports Synaptic Package Manager and Gdebian Installer.

What else do I need?

Neptune OS is another KDE desktop which is attractive but it could not (as stated by them) make a persistent volume. 

That put me off after 24 hour trial.

It looks like I am reaching 300,000 hits on this blog site of which more than 100,000 hits are of my own hits.

My target was to reach 100,000 without any AD Money from Google.

I have achieved it but I keep a very close eye on forward march of Linux.

If I have revived interest in Linux lately (target is 10% of all PC users, currently 3%) and all my criticisms are constructive and not destructive.

Long Live Linux.