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Re: Linux screensaver

From Rathbone <please@replytolist.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Linux screensaver
Date 2020-06-22 20:20 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <slrnrf24jg.44a.please@logancomp.rathbonelaw.com> (permalink)
References <rcdtf6$mpf$1@reader1.panix.com> <rcg7ek$fbn$1@dont-email.me> <slrnresud7.44a.please@logancomp.rathbonelaw.com> <20200621092911.139ab304@nx-74205>

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On 2020-06-21, Aragorn wrote:
> On 20.06.2020 at 21:03, Rathbone scribbled:
>
>> On 2020-06-18, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>> > I started on Mandriva in 2006 and graduated to PCLinuxOS (a rolling
>> > release) in 2013.  
>> 
>> Based on your description of PCLinuxOS, it sounds like it was cut from
>> the same cloth as ArkLinux, a discontinued distro that I used in the
>> early 2000s.
>
> No, PCLinuxOS started off as a spinoff from Mandriva when Mandriva
> (formerly Mandrake) fired several of its longstanding staff members,
> among whom Bill "TexStar/Tex" Reynolds, one of their senior packagers.
> [snip]

"Cut from the same cloth" doesn't necessarily mean that they were
derived from the same distro, literally. I just mean they had similar
philosophies. They were also both KDE-centric, and both also combined
similar technologies that were not common to combine, like apt+rpm.

>> [snip]

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Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-17 20:12 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2020-06-17 15:37 -0500
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-17 21:05 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2020-06-17 21:54 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:54 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-06-17 23:26 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:55 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:52 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-06-17 23:37 -0700
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:59 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-06-18 10:15 -0700
    Re: Linux screensaver Rathbone <please@replytolist.com> - 2020-06-20 21:03 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2020-06-21 09:29 +0200
        Re: Linux screensaver Rathbone <please@replytolist.com> - 2020-06-22 20:20 +0000
          Re: Linux screensaver Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2020-06-23 10:07 +0200
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-22 20:15 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-06-18 17:57 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 19:01 +0000

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