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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I was none too impressed with the first release of Yoper, and with the various issues around it at the time. But now I would urge everybody who might still be weary to not let the past prejudice them agains Yoper of today. It is a good distro.
Installation is a snap, performance very good, and Apt makes management of software easy.
I also think Yoper strikes right balance between simplicity and features.
Take the installer for example: yes, it limits you to one partition, but it does allow a selection of filesystems, unlike many 'easy distros' which make choice for you (and that choice is usually ext3, to my dismay). It doesn't allow piece-by-piece choice of software, but it does have two profiles: desktop and minimal. It is text based, but where it really matters it switches to Sax2 to configure the display.
I don't think Yoper has any specific focus but it is a good all-purpose distro; do with it what you like! As a desktop, its KDE is a lot more developed than Gnome or XFce4, but they are there. If someone doesn't want KDE for example, I imagine they could start with Yoper minimal install and then apt-get Ygnome. Want a server? Start with minimal install and again, apt-get what you need. Want a desktop for a new user? I think Yoper would be quite a good choice for a beginner, because it is quite simple to use and run, but without resorting to distro-specific 'command centre' or 'wizards'.
All in all, I think I'm going to keep Yoper. Now I'll need to get another machine for distro-hopping! (yes, I can be quite happy with my system yet still keep looking around - call it curiosity, call it a hobby... It could be that as someone noted the effort could be better spent elsewhere - but that would be missing the point of having a hobby, wouldn't it?)