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Is PCLinuxOS taking over ?

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ciproxr

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im an ubuntu user but it seems alot of people are switching. If you check the distrowatch its ranking keeps getting higher despite the fact that ubuntu is more commercial, every pc magazine mentions ubuntu.

i heard you can install .deb and rpm packages on it which sounds awesome.

 
You cannot install debs. PCLOS uses synaptic and APT as a front end to rpm. That is all. It is an rpm based distro.

It is a good distro as long as the hardware you use isn't newer than about 6 months old. I used to be a hard core PCLOS user but switched to Ubuntu last year when I bought a Dell Latitude D820. Now I am useing a Thinkpad T61p and PCLOS won't touch it. In fact the latest betas of Ubuntu require a lot of work to make the hardware work mostly.

Tony
 
Maybe linux n00bs, that were targeted by Ubuntu.

truth is, Ubuntu isn't anything revolutionary or special.

As for apt vs. rpm..so what? RPM is older format with still great support. It had serious dependencies issues which are now resolved. Two main enterprises Linux distros, RedHat Suse use RPM, and there is sh*tload of RPM stuff that you might not find in DEB format. For example, look at Adobe Acrobat or TinyOS project.
 
RPM is older format with still great support. It had serious dependencies issues which are now resolved.
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Technically it still has them just like dpkg still has them, apt/yum do all of the dependency resolution stuff and sadly yum is a huge piece of crap.

Two main enterprises Linux distros, RedHat Suse use RPM, and there is sh*tload of RPM stuff that you might not find in DEB format. For example, look at Adobe Acrobat or TinyOS project.
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No clue what TinyOS is but Acrobat is packaged for Debian by Christian Marillat. The only things I have installed that aren't packaged for Debian for me is VMWare and a few games.

And since Ubuntu has an release coming up in Oct that'll probably push it's popularity back up.
 
And since Ubuntu has an release coming up in Oct that'll probably push it's popularity back up.
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yeah i didnt even think of that, but for how long ? im gonna stick to ubuntu causei like gnome and in my experience ubuntu has had better hardware support ever since feisty.Not to mention theres 1000's of guides for ubuntu
 
yeah i didnt even think of that, but for how long ?
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Another 6 months until the next release? I'm biased cause I'm a Debian zealot and Debian is Ubuntu's father but I generally don't see a reason to choose another distro besides RHEL/CentOS and that's only if you absolutely must have RHEL compatibility for something like Oracle.
 
You need to take Distrowatch page rankings with a grain of salt. That ranking is not based on what operating system people are using to access DW. It is determined by the number of people that click on the PCLOS link itself. About a month back, Ladislav (who maintains DW) posted the actual OS listings of people accessing DW. Ubuntu out numbered All the other distros by a pretty good margin. PCLOS was not even at the top of the list.

DW really needs to do a better job explaining the page rank listings. As a side note, several independent sources list Ubuntu as the most used distro. All you need to do is google to find them.
 
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