PCLinuxOS
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PCLinuxOS, often shortened to PCLOS, is a rolling-release Linux distribution for x86-64 computers, with KDE Plasma, MATE, and XFCE as its default user interfaces. It is a primarily FOSS operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use.
Key facts
- OS.logo
- PCLinuxOS logo.svg
- OS.logo_size
- 80px
- OS.screenshot
- PCLinuxOS 2020.10 screenshot.png
- OS.screenshot_size
- 280px
- OS.caption
- Screenshot of the PCLinuxOS KDE edition
- OS.developer
- Bill Reynolds aka "Texstar"
- OS.latest release version
- 2025.09
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.source model
- Open source
- OS.updatemodel
- Rolling release
- OS.package_manager
- APT-RPM
- OS.supported_platforms
- x86-64
- OS.working state
- Current
- OS.kernel type
- Monolithic (Linux)
- OS.userland
- GNU
- OS.license
- Various
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- End of official support for 32-bit version
- [[KDE Plasma 4|KDE4]] FullMonty (FM) edition (Discontinued)
- Releases
- PCLinuxOS 2007
- PCLinuxOS 2009
- PCLinuxOS 2010
- PCLinuxOS 2010.1
- PCLinuxOS 2011.6
- PCLinuxOS 2012
- PCLinuxOS 2013 64-bit
- PCLinuxOS 2014.7
- PCLinuxOS 2014.12
- 2016 and later
- Features
- Community distributions
- Trinity edition
- LXQt edition
- Openbox
- Release dates
- See also
- References
- External links
PCLinuxOS, often shortened to PCLOS, is a rolling-release Linux distribution for x86-64 computers, with KDE Plasma, MATE, and XFCE as its default user interfaces. It is a primarily FOSS operating system for personal computers aimed at ease of use.
==History== The precursor to PCLinuxOS was a set of RPM packages created to improve successive versions of Mandrake Linux (later Mandriva Linux). These packages were created by Bill Reynolds, a packager better known as "Texstar". From 2000 to 2003, Texstar maintained his repository of RPM packages in parallel with the PCLinuxOnline site. In an interview, Texstar said he started PCLinuxOS "to provide an outlet for [his] crazy desire to package source code without having to deal with egos, arrogance, and politics."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PCLinuxOS” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.