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 decided to give Yoper a whirl the other day, skeptical of the speed bragging. Yoper is fast, the bragging is deserved. It's noticably quicker than any distribution I've ever tried with the exception of Gentoo built from Stage 1...they're about even. Gentoo takes much longer to build and tweak though. I was annoyed with just about everything the author was annoyed with, except for the difficulty of the install. I thought it was quite simple (*cough* two partitions?). A little too simple, but coherent.
It's nice to have a distribution you can just toss on a spare partition that sets everything up automatically, almost perfectly. The fonts were nice, Konqueror loaded INSTANTLY when before I thought 2 seconds was fast before, it has apt-get and installs everything I throw at it correctly. It detected my nVIDIA card with the SuSE SaX tool perfectly and inserted the module. This is a surprisingly polished Linux/GNU for a beta. Probably one of the best niche distros I've tried next to PCLinuxOS 2k4, and GoboLinux, which I also throughly enjoyed.