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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Boots to KDE in about 45 seconds for me. Noticed windows and setup lilo accordingly. The KDE desktop install is fairly free of bloat. And you can then choose to add thngs like K3b, xmms, kaffiene, openoffice, etc....
I got on the gentoo trip when they released 1.4 and I have to say that Yoper is right up with gentoo in speed, yet only takes a few minutes to install. The installer is really simple, and lacks choices to avoid confusing new users. And I'm pretty sure its M$ converts Yoper is hoping to get for the majority of its user base. Installing things is easy enough with synaptic, and while the package list is small now, it's growing. But even advanced users can appreciate the quick installer, and snappiness of the system.
There are a couple of rough spots- the SMP kernel did not work for me so I had to compile my own from yoper-smp source. Some media players are broken by the i686 optimization for some reason. ATI does not have xfree 4.4 drivers, and Sax2 is sometimes not friendly to LCD monitors.
I like Yoper so much, I'm working on turning it into a live CD as well as building Yoper rpm's. This distro has defintely caught my interest.
-Arkaine
Overclockix developer