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]]> By: Anonymous http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7682 Anonymous Mon, 25 May 2009 05:35:21 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7682 PCLOS ROCKS,BEEN USING OVER 5 YEARS ON OVER 68 COMPUTERS PCLOS ROCKS,BEEN USING OVER 5 YEARS ON OVER 68 COMPUTERS

]]> By: gazzzman http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7617 gazzzman Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:52:55 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7617 I am no expert on Linux.. but on voluntary teams.. well lets say I have some background :) these sort of things are bound to happen! TBQH I believe PCLinuxOS will continue with or without those dev's it has a life that is larger than the development team.. and even more.. it has a vision!! I recentl built a new PC. quad core with 8GB of memory.. so I thought I would go through some 64Bit distro's frankly it was a disaster!! none where stable! none had that elusive something PCLinuxOS has! a something that means that when I turn on my PC I KNOW what I am getting into.. I know how it is going to work.. and indeed that it IS going to just work! I then decided to sacrifice 4MB of RAM and use a 32Bit OS Ubuntu worked quite well but the font sizes and other bit's are not too clever.. and I preder KDE to Gnome :) Kubuntu was a disaster! plain and simple! KDE4? not yet thanks! Mandriva was the biggest surprise! every time I used the package update system.. it broke something usually majorly!! the same sadly applied to Suse! (and those both shocked me) we won't even discuss the problems I had with DesktopBSD (for fear of upsetting someone :) ) so yes.. I am back to PCLinuxOS on this machine too! it just works! the updates are generally rolled out in a way that does not break anything.. it is fast and friendly! I have put it on freinds and families machines.. and have had no hassle!! something that I can't say about many other things including windows! Unity looks like an interesting idea.. but it is unlikely to apply to me any time soon! so I wish PCLinuxOS a long and happy life!! and I hope they get themselves sorted out!! it is the ONLY distro I recommend to anyone leaving windows for Linux... and it hasn't failed me yet :) I am no expert on Linux..
but on voluntary teams.. well lets say I have some background :)
these sort of things are bound to happen!
TBQH I believe PCLinuxOS will continue with or without those dev’s
it has a life that is larger than the development team.. and even more.. it has a vision!!
I recentl built a new PC. quad core with 8GB of memory..
so I thought I would go through some 64Bit distro’s frankly it was a disaster!!
none where stable!
none had that elusive something PCLinuxOS has!
a something that means that when I turn on my PC I KNOW what I am getting into..
I know how it is going to work.. and indeed that it IS going to just work!
I then decided to sacrifice 4MB of RAM and use a 32Bit OS
Ubuntu worked quite well but the font sizes and other bit’s are not too clever.. and I preder KDE to Gnome :)
Kubuntu was a disaster! plain and simple! KDE4? not yet thanks!
Mandriva was the biggest surprise!
every time I used the package update system.. it broke something usually majorly!!
the same sadly applied to Suse! (and those both shocked me)
we won’t even discuss the problems I had with DesktopBSD (for fear of upsetting someone :) )
so yes.. I am back to PCLinuxOS on this machine too!
it just works!
the updates are generally rolled out in a way that does not break anything..
it is fast and friendly!
I have put it on freinds and families machines.. and have had no hassle!!
something that I can’t say about many other things including windows!
Unity looks like an interesting idea.. but it is unlikely to apply to me any time soon!
so I wish PCLinuxOS a long and happy life!!
and I hope they get themselves sorted out!!
it is the ONLY distro I recommend to anyone leaving windows for Linux… and it hasn’t failed me yet :)

]]> By: NAyK http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7616 NAyK Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:58:22 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7616 To Somebody: Oh man! So it really seems there is a problem. That's so sad to hear. To Somebody: Oh man! So it really seems there is a problem. That’s so sad to hear.

]]> By: Somebody http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7615 Somebody Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:37:08 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7615 "He never said the work the developers did was not good enough." True enough. Tex has pretty well given credit where credit is due. I have to give it to him that when people were thanking him for the 2009.1 release he was telling them not to thank him but to thank Gettinther and the Ripper Gang. "The delay was due to some people making decisions on the final product without considering the opinion of other team members." Decisions were made on a majority basis among the developers and when one person didn't like the decision, that person took over. The developers responded by leaving. "The entire team did not leave PCLOS. There are 6-7 people on the development team. They make it sound as though there we many." Of those 6-7 people on the development team, 2 had minimal contributions to PCLinuxOS 2009 and calling the third a developer is quite laughable. All the other people -those who *actually did work* on PCLinuxOS 2009- left. Anybody who has followed PCLinuxOS development in the past year and looks at the Unity forums will see that pretty much everybody who was somebody with PCLinuxOS is GONE. They are now with Unity. “He never said the work the developers did was not good enough.”

True enough. Tex has pretty well given credit where credit is due. I have to give it to him that when people were thanking him for the 2009.1 release he was telling them not to thank him but to thank Gettinther and the Ripper Gang.

“The delay was due to some people making decisions on the final product without considering the opinion of other team members.”

Decisions were made on a majority basis among the developers and when one person didn’t like the decision, that person took over. The developers responded by leaving.

“The entire team did not leave PCLOS. There are 6-7 people on the development team. They make it sound as though there we many.”

Of those 6-7 people on the development team, 2 had minimal contributions to PCLinuxOS 2009 and calling the third a developer is quite laughable. All the other people -those who *actually did work* on PCLinuxOS 2009- left.

Anybody who has followed PCLinuxOS development in the past year and looks at the Unity forums will see that pretty much everybody who was somebody with PCLinuxOS is GONE. They are now with Unity.

]]> By: gazzzman http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7612 gazzzman Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:01:03 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7612 I have been using pclos since 04 and have always been very pleased with it! it was the distro that finally let me break free of Windoze! and in my opinion a lot better than Ubuntu I do hope everything works out for them :) and I hope Texstar is well and over any health problems! I am using and enjoying 2009.1 on about 8 machines at the moment.. and as ever.. I am VERY pleased! thanks go out to everyone that has helped to make such a great distro!! I have been using pclos since 04 and have always been very pleased with it!
it was the distro that finally let me break free of Windoze!
and in my opinion a lot better than Ubuntu
I do hope everything works out for them :)
and I hope Texstar is well and over any health problems!
I am using and enjoying 2009.1 on about 8 machines at the moment..
and as ever.. I am VERY pleased!
thanks go out to everyone that has helped to make such a great distro!!

]]> By: NAyK http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7610 NAyK Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:11:57 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7610 To dev: Thanks for the clarification. To dev: Thanks for the clarification.

]]> By: dev http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/oh-no-pclinuxos-in-trouble/#comment-7609 dev Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:55:43 +0000 http://alternativenayk.wordpress.com/?p=245#comment-7609 Texstar was not gone over a year. He informed the development team in August he was not able to continue developing PCLOS due to health issues. He never said the work the developers did was not good enough. The delay was due to some people making decisions on the final product without considering the opinion of other team members. The entire team did not leave PCLOS. There are 6-7 people on the development team. They make it sound as though there we many. They claim no ill will toward PCLOS yet make untrue comments all over the net. Texstar was not gone over a year. He informed the development team in August he was not able to continue developing PCLOS due to health issues.

He never said the work the developers did was not good enough. The delay was due to some people making decisions on the final product without considering the opinion of other team members.

The entire team did not leave PCLOS. There are 6-7 people on the development team. They make it sound as though there we many.

They claim no ill will toward PCLOS yet make untrue comments all over the net.

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