I am not someone who believes that a Linux distributions sells itself, that technological achievement is enough to push it to the desktop of end users. As long as the educational systems keep on teaching Windows-based skills, there will be a lot of users who need some hand holding, some guidance, some instruction. What does PCLinuxOS have to offer in this regard? A first glance.

PCLinuxOS Magazine

The PCLinuxOS Magazine is hosted at it’s own website. Issue no. 17 was published in January 2008. The first issue appeared in September 2006 with 1401 downloads. In 2007 the number of downloads averages around 1500 with usually high downloads in October (17.136) and November 2007 (15.732). I downloaded all issues to check them out.

Between issue number 1 and number 17 one thing hasn’t changed: it’s format and I mean it’s literal page format (actually, it did change but reverted back again). It’s a bit strange to see a magazine in “Powerpoint” format. The first issue had a mix of personal testimonials and some hands-on articles like installing MiniMe from the hard drive to more indepth articles about RPM packaging, using Rootkit Hunter and creating your own initrd.

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