distrowatch and PCLinuxOS ranking

[steve riley]

Masters of the Distros,

I see that PCLinuxOS is ranked #3 on distrowatch for the last six months. If I change to the last 30 days, it's #2 - way ahead of openSUSE, Debian, and Fedora!

Either these stats are being manipulated or PCLinuxOS is doing something right. I don't hear the distro mentioned much anywhere. Is there something this distro is particularly good for?

It's based on Mandriva and I think Mandriva was originally out of Germany so maybe this is a lot of traffic out of Germany.

Steve

[snarkout]

Mandriva = france IIRC.

PCLinuxOS is a fairly nice distro that gets a lot of things right - it uses the mandrake control center (whatever that's called) and it uses yum to manage RPMs. They've had a stable+1 version that has been waiting for release for what seems like quite a while now, but it promises to be very nice when (if?) it gets finished. They have what appears to be a very friendly, though newbie heavy community - I have tried twice to sign up for their fora and have never been contacted with an "ok - yer in" email, and cannot log in, FWIW.

One thing that's driving me batshit when using it is that my scroll wheel dumps garbage characters to the screen or causes my browser to jump back, even after trying ever single mouse option I know of - even when I setup the mouse *identically* to how I have it setup on several other installs using the same gear. This one I can't figure out and have basically cached away as a quirk of the package.

All in all, it's a nice distro, and one you should check out if you like:
KDE
Mandrakes Tool Set
RPMs
yum
smaller communities

[allix]

Either these stats are being manipulated or PCLinuxOS is doing something right. I don't hear the distro mentioned much anywhere. Is there something this distro is particularly good for?

I have always been suspicious of distrowatch as far as no #1 distros go.
There was that time when limewire rigged it.

[adam]

Either these stats are being manipulated or PCLinuxOS is doing something right. I don't hear the distro mentioned much anywhere. Is there something this distro is particularly good for?

I have always been suspicious of distrowatch as far as no #1 distros go.
There was that time when limewire rigged it.

I think you mean Linspire

[chuck]

One thing that's driving me batshit when using it is that my scroll wheel dumps garbage characters to the screen or causes my browser to jump back, even after trying ever single mouse option I know of - even when I setup the mouse *identically* to how I have it setup on several other installs using the same gear. This one I can't figure out and have basically cached away as a quirk of the package.

I don't know if you've tried this, but in the past, with scroll wheel mice in particular, I've had strange mouse issues with a KVM. That's where I learned about the "psmouse.proto=" kernel boot time options. You may want to take a peek at that if you've not been down that road.

[allix]

I think you mean Linspire

lol , how did i get the two confused

[Tsuroerusu]

They've had a stable+1 version that has been waiting for release for what seems like quite a while now, but it promises to be very nice when (if?) it gets finished.

And recently the main developer announced that he's switching the distro to be based on Ubuntu.

[snarkout]

They've had a stable+1 version that has been waiting for release for what seems like quite a while now, but it promises to be very nice when (if?) it gets finished.

And recently the main developer announced that he's switching the distro to be based on Ubuntu.

Where? It isn't in their current news section, though that's been badly damaged by their recent (forced?) migration to a different provider.

[Tsuroerusu]

They've had a stable+1 version that has been waiting for release for what seems like quite a while now, but it promises to be very nice when (if?) it gets finished.

And recently the main developer announced that he's switching the distro to be based on Ubuntu.

Where? It isn't in their current news section, though that's been badly damaged by their recent (forced?) migration to a different provider.

Kuso!!
I guess I have my day/night hours so messed up that I forgot to notice that it was posted on April 1st, and it was an April Fools Joke!
I hate it when that happens.
Anyway, it was a good joke, you can see it here: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/14885