Author Topic: What makes PCLinuxOS unique?  (Read 2587 times)

Offline sling-shot

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Re: What makes PCLinuxOS unique?
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2012, 11:29:26 AM »
Packages.

What is unique about our packages?

We have stuck with the traditional way of packaging where many distros have moved on to newer, more automated methods, like mockbuild. Our pkgutils-kde and pkgutils-thunar are scripts to assist our packagers in simplifying the tedious tasks. These scripts were contributions from our community members. So I doubt if other distros would use them.

Let me place it as

6. Packages - built with the traditional way of packaging where as many distros have moved on to newer, more automated methods, like mockbuild. Our pkgutils-kde and pkgutils-thunar are scripts to assist our packagers in simplifying the tedious tasks.
Packaging well will cure headaches of many :) But learning to package will cause headaches in many :(

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Re: What makes PCLinuxOS unique?
« Reply #31 on: September 17, 2012, 01:57:00 PM »
It's Users !.
And not lets forget 'Tex' for starting it all  ;D
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Re: What makes PCLinuxOS unique?
« Reply #32 on: September 27, 2012, 01:46:14 PM »
For me?
Non-free video drivers don't bork my system.
Seriously.
I've spent more time at a command prompt with more than a few distro's than it took to install, reboot & log into PCLinuxOS.