"It seems that in the midst of writing our bit about installing Linux, the OS we suggested, PCLinuxOS, was choking, and may have been breathing its last gasps.
"The main site is down, updates are no longer working, and my flame-box is full. It took quite a bit of searching, but I finally found several sites that are the dying throes of this, one of the best little distros going..."
"The RAID array holding most of our Linux distributions went on the fritz last night. We are working on the problem but we *may* be looking at ordering replacement hardware and waiting for delivery..."