Talk:PCLinuxOS

message: Please replace the expression "under the bonnet", it sounds too poetic or humoristic, and is not widely used and understood.
"under the hood" is better (6,450,000 uses by google, vs. 374,000 with "bonnet"). Doesn't that all just mean "internally"?
:Thank you.
Ahem. "Under the bonnet" and "under the hood" mean the same thing, except that the latter is specifically North American. I'm not sure that it's necessary to change all Commonwealth English to American English just because the North American expression has more hits on google. Troyac 12:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "under the bonnet" 

message: This whole thing sounds like something written up by a marketting department.
- jpdrake
:*True.  Whether PCLinuxOS is a good distro or not is not Wikipedia's concern.  We're here only to inform people about whatever, not promote things.  Who's going to remove all the POV?  70.187.229.28 05:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *I cut most of the POV, and also trimmed some fluffy verbiage. I'd say it's more encylcopedic, but kinda stubby now: nothing in the article really distinguishes it from any of dozens of liveCD distros. If anyone's a fan of this distro, feel free to flesh it out a bit, but provide some references. Some of the cut POV material may be true, but it was tossed in without justification. A brisson 07:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marketing Drivel? 

message: Much as jpdrake said, this sounds like PR speak. For example, "PCLinuxOS has a greater sense of focus than Mandriva Linux." It's a pretty subjective statement, and for a distro I've never heard of I don't think it's reputation counts as common knowledge. Does anyone have any experience with this distro that could rewrite?
A brisson 19:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: I tested a number of LiveCDs, trying to find one that could print.  Printing under Linux seems quite hard for non-techies to set up.  PCLinuxOS 0.92 was the first I found that I could figure out how to actually get a Lexmark 3200 injet working on a USB adapter. 69.87.199.152 02:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Easy Printing

message: There is no mention is this article as far as I can see of the upcoming 2007 release, or the success of the two testing phases. Surely these should be added to keep the article up to date. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.194.83.127 (talk) 13:25, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old news 

message: I think that this article should also mention the massive surge in popularity pclos has recently experienced, currently residing at number three on distrowatch top 10 distributions! Also there are several remasters of pclos, sam linux for one, but there are many others (super gamer dvd, digital photography remaster etc. etc.) that should be mentioned.
This is no longer a small project, and this article need to reflect that. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.194.83.127 (talk) 13:29, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent success 

message: I'm not too sure if they completely rebranded it, or if it's just a new look for the betas.
I noticed it at DistroWatch.
If so, and if there's a PCLinuxOS developper out there, it's nice, but I miss the older logo, even though it looked alot like MS's. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jorophose (talk • contribs) 20:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did they change the logo? 

message: Isn't PCLinuxOS supposed to offer significant similarity to OSs that the wider public is already using? [No, it isn't]
This article needs to actually state some FEATURES that set this OS apart from any other (or that make it more similar to, say Windows, if that is the goal [that's not the goal]).  It needs a description of the look & feel of this OS -- or some examples -- plus information as to whether this may excessively dumb-down Linux for some users (by hiding functionality & command line access).
I don't care about the History of something that is not otherwise described!  The Features section should be moved up and should actually SAY something.
(Apologies to prior authors ... but this article left me as completely clueless about PCLinuxOS as I was before reading it.)  68.174.250.89 20:11, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro & Article fail to give ANY feel for the product! 

message: http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions
Is it worth to mention that a distro is considered non-free when only a few meets the criteria of being free by the FSF? 62.142.194.228 (talk) 10:41, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very few distributions are considered free by the FSF 

message: Does the screenshot on the page have to be such a "vista-fied" one? It doesn't really capture the uniqueness of the distribution (or even Linux in general) and comes across as a poor man's Windows. I'm sure there are far better PCLinuxOS desktop screenshots.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.240.57.4 (talk) 10:01, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It used to be :Image:Pclos0731.png which is a better representation of the distro, except I don't think that screenshot is from PCLinuxOS 2007. It should really be one of the default theme I think. (Which that might be -- I've never used MiniMe.) DarkJedi613 (talk) 16:50, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screenshot 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Reynolds  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CyclePat (talk • contribs) 22:31, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger? 

message: I have changed the link to BEL Project  (formerly listed as 'pclosbe.org) and added this minor edits section in the discussion page. as such a small edit like this does not warrant a section all it's own.
Bigbearomaha (talk) 12:42, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Edits 

message: I have been using this distro for three years now, having previously used Suse and Kubuntu, and experimented with others.  It's very easy to use, very easy to upgrade (I do so every week), and very easy to customise.  Some distros constrain you to do things "their way", but the many options available via Synaptic allow you to do it "your way".  I'm a retired teacher, and I look after computers for a few friends as a hobby.  I've installed it on their computers too. yes - "it just works".  It certainly IS free too, although I choose to make a regular donation. Sasha (talk) 10:55, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A User Comments 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: spotted randomly, maybe useful: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/comparing_the_descendants_of_mandrake/ – K4rolB (talk) 12:44, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable source 

message: Hello everyone, I'm a new editor here, and this article popped up in my suggested edits box on my user page. It said "Copyedit 5-10 minutes". I thought to myself, "Sounds easy enough, and it's a topic I'm interested in!" When I actually clicked on the article and started editing, it turned out to need more extensive work than I had thought it would. I spent about an hour editing this article today, but it's not quite there yet, in my opinion. I would really appreciate some help to make this a high-quality article, especially in the History section, which appears to not have been updated for some years. SmileySnail (talk) 01:53, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please help with polishing this article