Nice Recovery (From Actual Fire) by PCLinuxOS, New Version of PCLinuxOS Released, Now Top of DistoWatch

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2025

For many months DistroWatch had PCLinuxOS at the top. For months if not years DistroWatch had PCLinuxOS at the top 10. Now it's back on top:

2007:

Yesterday I became aware - via DistroWatch - that PCLinuxOS made a new ISO. This release is dated July 19 and some ISO is even dated today:

PCLinuxOS Magazine is back online (it has a new issue for this month) and its maintainer told me that 1) they will manage to restore virtually everything and 2) they found a backup made not long before actual fire consumed the rack.

PCLinuxOS is a community-driven distro. Give it a whirl. █

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