“PCLinuxOS is an up-and-coming distribution that recently made
it into Distrowatch.com’s list of Top Ten Distributions.
Originally, you might have called it a fork of Mandriva Linux, but
four years after its inception, it’s definitely its own
distribution, with its own package repositories, striking artwork,
and enthusiastic user community. In my experience, one thing that
stands out about PCLinuxOS is its commitment to making Linux look
good. This new version is simply gorgeous. (It helps if you like
the color blue.)“I installed PCLinuxOS Test 4 on a 10 GB partition (with a
separate 1 GB /home partition) on an AMD Athlon 2600+ with 640 MB
of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE graphics card. This hardware
is no great shakes nowadays, but it’s plenty fast enough to run
PCLinuxOS with all the bells and whistles…”