Hello Luggers,
Just downloaded and installed yoper V 2.0.Has anybody else tried yoper before.The only thing i liked very much about X/kde works very fast.Boots GUI mode very fast.The Yoper Official website states :
"The "fastest out of the box" OS, YOPER Linux V series, continues its global climb with the next stable release of V2 tagged 2.1.0, a powerful OS built upon the proven speed technologies that have made its predecessors famous.
Known to be a commercial strength Desktop Solution at 0 cost, this release provides the power user with many new features, encompassing REISER4 support for the root filesystem, new non-destructive NTFS resizing, graphical partitioning, option to use GRUB or LILO bootloaders, a new clustered control panel, KDE 3.3.0 Final, Linux Kernel 2.6.8.1, default Firewall and the OpenOffice.org Office Suite, all provided on 1 CD. The default "look and feel" has been enhanced and many bugfixes have been applied, including PCMCIA support during install and support for PPPoE.
Hundreds of new optimised software packages have also been added by the Yoper Team. They are all available for free download via the APT/Synaptic Yoper repository. All the attributes of Linux in combination with unparalleled speed, superb security enhancements and international language support, have been integrated under one remarkable Operating System. "
Rgds,
Rohit Baisakhiya. http://linux.kiraninfotech.com
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Rohit Baisakhiya wrote:
Just downloaded and installed yoper V 2.0.Has anybody else tried yoper before.The only thing i liked very much about X/kde works very fast.Boots GUI mode very fast.
From the Yoper FAQ:
"Yoper fills the gap between the guru-only Gentoo or Linux from scratch OS's, and Linux distros used by businesses or home users, that still want the best possible desktop."
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The major advantage is that you can install portages so that you have applications that are tailor-made for your CPU: Why install i386/i586/i686 rpm's when you have Pentium 4 or Athlon XP ?
Needless to say if you have a P4 or XP processor you get a speed/performance advantage.
Gentoo is closest that Linux gets to the supposedly venerable FreeBSD. Do tell us your experiences with Yoper...
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nikhil Joshi spake thusly:
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The
Debian also has source packages available and can download, compile and configure them like usual. It is difficult to beat the maturity of APT. I havent yet used gentoo, but a couple of gentoo fanatics converted to debian with a little persuasion and *they* cite some advantages of debian over gentoo and not many vice versa.
Maybe you should try Debian once.
On 01/09/04 09:31 +0530, quasi wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Nikhil Joshi spake thusly:
Well I use Gentoo and frankly I am not a Guru. Gentoo is IMHO the "best" source-based Linux distribution. It gives you the power of installing either binary packages or source based "portages". The
Debian also has source packages available and can download, compile and configure them like usual. It is difficult to beat the maturity of APT. I havent yet used gentoo, but a couple of gentoo fanatics
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Try it. emerge and the BSD ports systems is far more convinient over apt. Where emerge wins is not in the optimisation, but in the USE flags. That convinience is simply missing with other package managers, unless apt can download a source package compile with my chosen optimisations (and compile time options) and then install it.
converted to debian with a little persuasion and *they* cite some advantages of debian over gentoo and not many vice versa.
Maybe you should try Debian once.
OTOH, for quite a few people, Debian is just too ancient. On a server, Debian is usable, except that the Postfix and PostgreSQL support are lacking. On my workstation, apt would be broken left, right and center.
/me is about to roll over to Pg 8.0 b2 tonight.
Devdas Bhagat
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