Linked by Tarun Agnani on Thu 5th Aug 2004 18:45 UTC
Yoper Linux V2 was released a few weeks ago (July 13, 2004). After reading the release announcement on Yoper's website, I decided I had to try it. Yoper claims that version V2 "is the fastest Out-of-the-Box Linux system in the World".
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Appreciate the review. My recent experience with Yoper was a bit different.
I've installed a bunch of Linux flavors over the years, but tend to spend most of my time with Slackware. Yoper's installation seemed too half-baked for novices, but too limiting for experienced users. In my case, I want to place my /usr/local and /home partitions on a second drive. I'd prefer to use fdisk to do that. Yoper doesn't give me that option. (To be fair, other distros share this failing.)
I'll second your comments about lack of control over lilo, and the lack of information about what is actually installed.
And the bit about being allowed to use "only" two partitions is nonsense, of course.
Simplifying an installation by eliminating choice is appropriate in some cases, but Yoper really should include an option for a "hands-on" install.
In the end, I was unable to coax Yoper to install in usable form. I tired the Yoper forum, but got irritating lectures suggesting I was obligated to start coding fixes myself.
FWIW, I've been using MunjoyLinux for a few weeks (www.munjoylinux.org). This is yet another Debian variation via Knoppix, but it has the best display quality of any distribution I've ever used, period. Munjoy is also compiled for 686's, installs in about 10 minutes, and boots fast. (It's install routine suffers from the same simplicity as Yoper's, but has the advantage of making sense and working.) Munjoy is a work-in-progress, and annoyances do show up, but I think it is very much worth checking out.