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PCLinuxOS 2K4: Mandrake Meets The Live CD
NoahsLinuxArk2K3 writes "For those of you who may not be familiar with PCLinuxOS, it's a Linux distro derived from Mandrake Linux 9.2, developed by none other than Texstar from PCLinuxOnline (best known for his RPM work for the same distro). The new distro is primarily a Live CD, but can also be installed to the hard drive. It is still in preview release, but at 306 hits per day, it's already #8 on the DistroWatch charts. This review is the first of its kind to surface and it is looking very promising." Update: 12/30 03:18 GMT by T :
A semi-anonymous reader writes "For those who dont have a high speed connection, PCLinuxOS 2K4 Preview 4 is available from OSDisc.com for a few bucks." Probably soon it will be at cheapbytes, too.
Is it just me, or are the trolls getting worse?
I don't trust "e"-voting. Why? Because it has been proven to be unsafe. That being said, I still like the idea of electronic voting and think a reliable system can be developed. I'm just curious as to why a dependable and safe methodology hasn't been implemented yet. I'm not convinced the reason is because it is not open source though. That would certainly make it better though given the implications of the results. But I could probably pick ten or twenty developers off /., make it closed source, and come up with a safe voting scheme. So why is it that things have gone so badly? Why do I constantly read about flaws in the system? Are the people working for these companies so incompentent that they can't write good code? I think the jury is still out on this subject and there is plenty of work to do, so I'm hoping that things will only get better.