Linux Magazine Italy Interview [LWN.net]

Bill "Texstar" Reynolds, founder of PCLinuxOS (PCLOS), was interviewed by Linux Magazine Italy. An English translation was later posted to the PCLOS forum. "In the summer of 2003 I became interested in livecd technology after looking at knoppix and a fresh distribution from a fellow named Warren called Mepis. I was interested in helping Warren with Mepis at the time but I had no clue how to build Deb files. Coming from 5 years of packaging rpms and not really wanting to learn a new packaging system I happened to come across a South African fellow by the name of Jaco Greef. He was developing a script called mklivecd and porting it to Mandrake Linux. I along with Buchanan Milne (Mandrake contributor) and a few others began working with Jaco to help debug the scripts. I got an idea to make a livecd based on Mandrake Linux 9.2 along with all my customizations just for fun. I had previously provided an unofficial 3rd party repository for the users of Mandrake Linux for many years but had since parted ways. Mandrake was a trademarked name, so myself and others decided to name the livecd after our old news site and forum pclinuxonline thus PCLinuxOS."

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