Talk:PCLinuxOS

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[edit] "under the bonnet"

Please replace the expression "under the bonnet", it sounds too poetic or humoristic, and is not widely used and understood. "under the hood" is better (6,450,000 uses by google, vs. 374,000 with "bonnet"). Doesn't that all just mean "internally"?

Thank you.

Ahem. "Under the bonnet" and "under the hood" mean the same thing, except that the latter is specifically North American. I'm not sure that it's necessary to change all Commonwealth English to American English just because the North American expression has more hits on google. Troyac 12:51, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Although I am a yank, I understand utb, and don't see why wiki should not accept a variety to international English. 69.87.199.152 02:33, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketting Drivel?

This whole thing sounds like something written up by a marketting department.

- jpdrake

  • True. Whether PCLinuxOS is a good distro or not is not Wikipedia's concern. We're here only to inform people about whatever, not promote things. Who's going to remove all the POV? 70.187.229.28 05:22, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
  • I cut most of the POV, and also trimmed some fluffy verbiage. I'd say it's more encylcopedic, but kinda stubby now: nothing in the article really distinguishes it from any of dozens of liveCD distros. If anyone's a fan of this distro, feel free to flesh it out a bit, but provide some references. Some of the cut POV material may be true, but it was tossed in without justification. A brisson 07:23, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Much as jpdrake said, this sounds like PR speak. For example, "PCLinuxOS has a greater sense of focus than Mandriva Linux." It's a pretty subjective statement, and for a distro I've never heard of I don't think it's reputation counts as common knowledge. Does anyone have any experience with this distro that could rewrite? A brisson 19:48, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Easy Printing

I tested a number of LiveCDs, trying to find one that could print. Printing under Linux seems quite hard for non-techies to set up. PCLinuxOS 0.92 was the first I found that I could figure out how to actually get a Lexmark 3200 injet working on a USB adapter.[1] 69.87.199.152 02:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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