R.I.P. PCLinuxOS??
Dave Boland
happen, despite pronouncements to the contrary. That is a
shame as it was very good. Some things I note (as in facts):
* TR3 released on March 4, nothing since
* TR4 has been promised for about 2 wks., but..
* The web site has been down for about 2 wks., even though
ibiblio is up.
Hope I'm wrong because I really liked it, but it looks like
it is time to move on. Thanks to all of those that worked
so hard - you did a darn fine job!
Dave,
Roy Schestowitz
The site is down because PCLinuxOS is _too much_ alive. It could not cope
with the demand and it will return shortly (even Ubuntu.com got hit by
demand that was too strong yesterday, so it was down for 4 hours).
You can still get the distribution and development is very active. In fact,
PCLOS has gone past (maybe even outgrown) Mandrake/Mandriva from which it
was derived, if the metrics at DistroWatch indicate something meaningful.
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BearItAll
I was trying to get into Elive for something like two weeks once, the
problem turned out to be to do with their host. Maybe PCLinuxOS is doing
what ever it was Elive did.
As it happens, I just looked and it seems that I am right,
http://www.pclinuxos.com Maybe they are setting their forums etc up on a
new host. Moving a live forum is a horrible task, all the main folders, sub
folder, linked areas that have been building dynamically, it really isn't a
nice job to do, plus as they say on that site, they are at the same time
trying to finish the new release.
Roy Schestowitz
The last time I looked, they used temporary hosting at Google.
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> It looks like this really nice distribution is not going to happen,
> despite pronouncements to the contrary. That is a shame as it was very
> good. Some things I note (as in facts):
> * TR3 released on March 4, nothing since
> * TR4 has been promised for about 2 wks., but..
> * The web site has been down for about 2 wks., even though ibiblio is up.
Points worth noting:
1. The situation is *temporary*, as has been stated over and over again.
2. You're ditching a distro because of temporary *hosting* problems?
3. You're leaving just as it's becoming more popular than ever?
4. You're leaving at the point where the PCLOS community needs you most?
5. Your patience does not extend more than *two weeks*?
6. Has TR3 mysteriously stopped working, just because TR4 is late?
7. The PCLOS community gave you a free distro, what did you give back?
Hell, Windows users waited *six years* for an update, and you can't wait
more than two weeks ... for them to sort out *hosting* problems!!!
http://www.mypclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=1
> Hope I'm wrong because I really liked it, but it looks like it is time
> to move on.
Yeah. Goodbye.
Don't forget your box of FUD.
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Gordon
> 1. The situation is *temporary*, as has been stated over and over again.
> 2. You're ditching a distro because of temporary *hosting* problems?
How "temporary" is temporary? As the Op said, it's been nearly a fortnight
so far, and with every day that that extends, "temporary" has a bad habit
of becoming "permanent"....
Gordon
> The site is down because PCLinuxOS is _too much_ alive. It could not cope
> with the demand and it will return shortly (even Ubuntu.com got hit by
> demand that was too strong yesterday, so it was down for 4 hours).
Four hours, fine. TWO WEEKS?
Kier
A fortnight is hardly a very long time. Why not offer them some help to
get back up and running?
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Reminds me of a story a pastor friend used to tell me about the church he
was called to in New Mexico. One day he asked about a rather 'temporary'
looking partition in the kitchen/dining room. He inquired about it. He was
told it was indeed temporary. He inquired how long it had been there.
Answer: seven years.
NoStop
> Verily I say unto thee, that Dave Boland spake thusly:
>
>> It looks like this really nice distribution is not going to happen,
>> despite pronouncements to the contrary. That is a shame as it was very
>> good. Some things I note (as in facts):
>> * TR3 released on March 4, nothing since
>> * TR4 has been promised for about 2 wks., but..
>> * The web site has been down for about 2 wks., even though ibiblio is up.
>
> Points worth noting:
>
> 1. The situation is *temporary*, as has been stated over and over again.
> 2. You're ditching a distro because of temporary *hosting* problems?
> 3. You're leaving just as it's becoming more popular than ever?
> 4. You're leaving at the point where the PCLOS community needs you most?
> 5. Your patience does not extend more than *two weeks*?
> 6. Has TR3 mysteriously stopped working, just because TR4 is late?
> 7. The PCLOS community gave you a free distro, what did you give back?
>
> Hell, Windows users waited *six years* for an update, and you can't wait
> more than two weeks ... for them to sort out *hosting* problems!!!
>
>
http://www.mypclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=38&Itemid=1
>
>> Hope I'm wrong because I really liked it, but it looks like it is time
>> to move on.
>
> Yeah. Goodbye.
>
> Don't forget your box of FUD.
>
I wonder if "move on" means moving to Vista? If that is the case, he'll be
back shortly. :-)
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on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:51:05 +0100
<pan.2007.04.20....@tiscali.co.uk>:
Depends. A fortnight is an awful long time to go without
a Microsoft bug patch, for example. :-)
As for help...they apparently need a fatter pipe and a
bigger host (or a more efficient web serving system).
But they don't mention the size of the "surge" that they're
experiencing -- they merely mention a huge increase.
The good news: one can get Big Daddy, Junior, or MiniMe p93a,
at least as far as I can tell, from the Ibiblio.org mirror at
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/pclinuxos/live-cd/english/preview/
(I don't do PCLinuxOS so don't know if that's the newest stuff.)
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Still being developed. Just noticed the following:
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/15522
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says...
Very silly viewpoint.
They stumbled under a severe DEMAND for PCLOS.
They need a distrib system vastly more under their own control, and this
is not set up properly overnight. A good foundation requires some time to
do it right.
They will do just fine.
Linuxiac
http://distrowatch.com and http://linux.org
2. I am running Pclinuxos-p93, have DL'd and burned TR3, have tested TR1
and TR2, and know that there are quite a number of equally competent
Linux distros available that I have already collected, also.
3. In GNU/Linux, we know how to run the Distros, and have a plethora of
options in applications, GUI's, programs, kernels, games. When
Microsoft lost their server farms for a week and had to switch to Linux
servers leased from Akamai, the sky was falling for Microsoft. When one
or two of the hundreds of GNU/Linux distros encounter server farm crash
due to their fandom, they plan and design a bigger, faster, server farm.
4. I am rooting for Texstar, and continue to recruit intelligent life
forms who see the obvious advantages of this stable and fast, complete
Distro of GNU/Linux. I run PCLinuxOS, I like it, and the hundreds of
people I introduce to it never look back.
Notice my use of the words intelligent, advantages, stable, fast,
complete. You do NOT have to take my word for it. Grab your own copy,
and see for yourself.
Now, I mention the advantages in GNU/Linux of upto 50X faster processes,
ability to run concurrenty upto 200 open applications on each of 20
desktops, plus, Beryl.