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I've been running it for about 3 weeks or so now. It's VERY fast (not that Yoper was ever slow, but it's noticably faster than v1), and it found and correctly set up my Radeon 9600 with dual monitors!! No other distro has done this (Suse 9 came close, but I still had to manually tweak the XF86Config-4 file).

Yoper v2 is very polished, looks great, and comes with probably 80-90% of what the average desktop user will want pre-installed, while providing all the neccesary tools to compile whatever else you may want from scratch.

Codeweaver v3 works perfectly on it (including inserting new menu items, something that's often failed on other systems, with earlier versions of Codeweavers, so I'm not sure if it's Yoper-specific, or Codeweaver v3-specific).

Yoper also seems to have cleaned up it's act as far as customer support and such goes. I was one of their more vocal critics a couple of years ago, but rather than go into past problems, let's focus on the now: Yoper is a highly polished, desktop ready Linux distro. Try it out & see for yourself!!

The ONLY downside I can find to Yoper isn't really a downside: A lack of pre-compiled Yoper-specific software. It would be more of a problem if Yoper didn't provide you with all the tools to compile from source, but they do. If you want something that's not included as part of the default setup, simply download the source, ./configure, make, and make install. Easy!

I was actually going to write an in depth review for this once I installed it, but instead chose to focus on other projects (I knew it wouldn't be a secret for too long!).

Seriously... It's worth your time to check this release out. I'm just surprised that more vendors aren't tweaking their distro's as much as Yoper has. It definately has a positive impact on the desktop experience!