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First Look at PCLinuxOS 2008 ‘MiniMe’ Edition

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“PCLinuxOS is a Linux distribution originally based on Mandriva
(Mandrake) and it’s distributed as a LiveCD. As it evolved,
PCLinuxOS took advantage of tools, patches and bug fixes from other
distributions as well, such as Gentoo, OpenSuse, Fedora, Debian and
Ubuntu. It has the Control Center and install tool from Mandriva,
the RPM package system from Fedora, the apt-get and Synaptic
package managers from Debian/Ubuntu. I think it’s safe to say that
PCLinuxOS is a combination of the best parts from popular
distributions, making it sort of ‘the best of the best.’ Or at
least that’s what it tries to be…”


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