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'm a recent Windows convert to SuSe 9.1. I've experimented with Linux in it's various guises for years, but find this newest release from SuSe to be the most polished and integrated Linux desktop I've ever used, bar none. I have some questions about Yoper 2, maybe some of you could field them for me:
1) Is YOPER's boot sequence completely graphical? SuSe is either using the graphical boot patch in 9.1, or they do an extremely effective job of hiding the terminal during boot. Heck, even their shutdown sequence is completely graphical, it's fantastic.
2) Does YOPER support suspend to disk out of the box? SuSe sort of does -- it'll work, if you change a single setting in a config file from 'no' to 'yes'. No other distro makes it that easy, and it'd be nice to know whether YOPER is similar.
3) What is the multimedia situation like in YOPER 2? This is an area where SuSe falls-down. Loyal SuSe users might find that statement incredulous but, the truth is, other distros like Fedora Core are much better at providing multimedia file support. I am constantly running into file types that I can't get to play in SuSe (Windows Media files, many MPEG 4-encoded avi's (certain DiVX and XvID revisions), even certain MPEG 1 or 2 files) and, no matter what RPMs I install to try and get those files playing, nothing works or I get, at best, audio working. In contrast, in Fedora Core 2, media type support was much more comprehensive and far easier to get working -- just download a few RPMs and *BAM*, any file I threw at it worked w/o a hitch (all Windows Media, Quicktime, Real Media and MPEG variants worked flawlessly).
Thanks for any responses, I'm really intrigued by Y2! :-)