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This article looks like a promotional article about a non-notable Linux distro. It desperately needs reliable third party refs to should notability and avoid being deleted as spam. - Ahunt (talk) 18:34, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found one article on Softpedia and added that as a ref and detagged it, but it still needs more third party refs added. - Ahunt (talk) 14:57, 31 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I found one as well:

http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.php?linux_distribution_sm=Porteus%20v09

"Porteus is a Slackware-based distribution and live CD featuring the KDE desktop. It was created by the Slax user community as a logical continuation of the now discontinued Slackware-based live CD."

The added "read more at Distrowatch" seems not to be true, since I only find on Distrowatch the link to porteus.org, but no additional info. Maybe I just't don't get how distrowatch works, though....

But where to put it in? Same like you did with your above third party reference? Rava77 (talk) 09:25, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

That is a good find, it doesn't say much, but I'll add it in. If DistroWatch does start a page on it then we can use that as well, but for now they just have it "on-hold". - Ahunt (talk) 13:35, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Jargon[edit]

Re "... for x86 (32-bit) based systems as well as for x86_64 (64-bit) ...": Would that be understandable for the average reader? --Mortense (talk) 20:55, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - Ahunt (talk) 18:46, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Error Found?[edit]

Hey guys, I think I may have found an error with the page. On Porteus Kiosk's section, I saw that the Latest Release was the fifth, three days ago. However, that part of the section is saying that the fifth was zero days ago, like so:

Latest release 4.1.0 / September 5, 2016; 0 days ago

Any ideas on how we can go about getting this fixed?

Thanks, Kingstevenrules

Kingstevenrules (talk) 16:00, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed - Ahunt (talk) 16:53, 8 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Update on the Porteus linux distribution :[edit]

Porteus 5 review — A different and powerful Linux distro : (29th Nov 2022)

https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-review-a-different-and-powerful-linux-distro-33df8789a758 90.44.126.214 (talk) 12:56, 2 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]