PCLinuxOS Had Functional Backups Before the House Fire, the Site Will be Restored in New Webhost
The Chief Editor of PCLOS (PCLinuxOS) magazine sent me mail about this latest issue of PCLOS magazine, which includes this detailed editorial about the status of PCLOS infrastructure:
In late June, 2025, YouCanToo/The CrankyZombie experienced a fire at his place of residence. Inside his residence were the servers that ran all of the “services” that PCLinuxOS users came to rely on. That included the forum, PCLOS-Mail, PCLOS-Talk, PCLOS-Cloud, this magazine’s website, and the PCLinuxOS Knowledgebase Wiki.Even though his residence experienced significant smoke and water damage from the fire, YCT/TCZ found that the backups he had made of the magazine, wiki, and cloud site were intact. That meant that it was only a matter of finding a new webhost for these sites. Texstar had already started a new forum. He is still figuring out a format for the main PCLinuxOS page.
We found a new webhost, and with the help of YCT/TCZ, we managed to move the domain to the new webhost fairly quickly (same address … https://pclosmag.com). YCT/TCZ, TerryN, and I worked tirelessly to find a new webhost for the PCLinuxOS Knowledgebase Wiki (note the new URL).
There are more details in that page. Last week we published "PCLinuxOS is Raising Money to Support Development After Fire Incident at the Host" and 10 days ago we said, "Nice Recovery (From Actual Fire) by PCLinuxOS, New Version of PCLinuxOS Released, Now Top of DistoWatch".
Remember that PCLinuxOS is an actual community distro. My dad used it about 15 years ago. It was good. Even the hosting was done by the PCLinuxOS community or by volunteers. This is the direction we want for GNU/Linux, not some IBM sales strategy. █