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		freehunter on Feb 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Canonical will no longer fund Kubuntu Off topic, but PCLinuxOS is really just a terrible name. It's so horribly generic. It sounds like "Windows Antivirus 2012".

oinksoft on Feb 7, 2012 [–]

It seemed surprisingly popular ca. 2007 before people figured out that they were, I shit you not, tampering with the DistroWatch numbers by spoofing hits.

A decent distro though, and it was a little more usable than Mandriva at the time.

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