zhopon writes “DesktopLinux.com speaks with Andreas Girardet, Founder of Yoper, a New Zealand-based Linux distribution…Girardet relates the goals of the new company, explains what makes Yoper unique, and his philosophy about the emerging desktop market” You can read the rest at desktoplinux.com.
Yoper: ‘Your Operating System’ revealed
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that Yoper is the best distribution I’ve ever used.
I’m not of the “Linux Guru” caliber, but I’ve used many different distributions, and none of them have impressed me nearly as much as Yoper has in the 2-3 weeks since I installed it!
Highpoints are its speed, it’s look(s), and the level of integration they’ve achieved (You truly feel you’re using an “Operating System”, as opposed to a Linux distribution with a small ton of software included).
I’ve used Mandrake, Redhat, Sorcerer, Gentoo, Suse, and a few other distributions, and none have left me with the warm feeling I get from my Yoper install.
Similarly, I’ve never had my wine-enabled apps run as fast as they do under Yoper when they were installed under any of the aforementioned distributions. It’s really something you have to experience (and just think, we’re not even up to RC3 yet!)
I could go on, but I’ll stop with the advice that you should check this OS out. The hype is justified!
How is the Wifi support under Yoper? I can’t switch from Redhat on my laptop until I know it will support my wireless lan.
For any questions you have about Yoper just go to the Yoper forums at: http://www.yoper.com/cgi-bin/b7/main.pl?rid=38
All your questions will be answered quickly and there’s no need to register!
The last I read there were going to be different versions of Yoper, and the current version is the desktop version and there would be a laptop version to follow, which is a bummer since I’m only using Linux on a laptop at the moment.
I tried their boot from CD promo, and while it worked OK, it wasn’t a slick as Knoppix altough in fairness it was only a demo where as Knoppix is CD based only.
I like their business model since regional distribution/var makes the most sense to me
I really hope they succeed
Tried the bootcd…segfaulted….end of Yoper on my system
I recommend Redhat or Lycoris.
I was thinking of trying out Linux again after many dissapointing attempts at useing the OS mainly. YOPER is excellent! It is slick and very eye candyish without losing performance at all!
I tried to install from the boot cd…no go. I hope that they sort out the problem soon.
If you can’t Yoper to load, you should really e-mail the developer’s your specs or post in their forums. Part of open source is you contributing back to something you got for free.
I’m not trying to be didactic here, butI’m sure they’d like to know if their OS doesn’t run on commonly available hardware.
I have problem with RC2 on my GeForce4 card. I just wait for the soon to be release RC3 and try again. I was able to get it to work on my laptop. Not too bad though.
Yoper claims to handle RPM, Deb, tgz-native as well as compiling from source. How exactly is all this tracked? Is there a central package database that records packages installed no matter how it’s done? Or are there several, one for RPM, one for deb, one for tgz and one for compiled (Are locally compiled apps tracked at all?)? Will dependencies provided for by a package in one packaging system satisfy packages from another?
This is important to know for the sake of upgrading packages, adding new packages, etc. The article makes some mention of this, but seems to say that this is avoided by including everything needed at install time. Even assuming hat this is done, What if needs change or a better application for a given purpose is developed/discovered? What about upgrades?
Regarding the performance of Yoper against other OS’s – does anyone have any basic benchmarks comparing against another distro? – stuff like how long it takes to open a konqueror window on Yoper vs say RedHat or Mandrake? Or OpenOffice.org?