Ark Linux 1.0 alpha 9, a Linux distribution designed primarily for new Linux users, has been released and is available for download here. Highlights of this release include, among the usual set of package updates and bugfixes, graphical bootup, semi-automatic recovery of corrupted XFree86 config files, and an improved network card configuration tool.
The full release notes can be found here.
>> – supermount-ng is now included.
Cool.
Does someone have any experience with this ‘ng’ edition of supermount?
Does it really work that much better than the previous version(s)?
In the future, you might want to do a little basic research before posting.
From http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/
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This work started as a set of patches that fixed several bugs in supermount included in Mandrake Linux. Working on them I realized that supermount in its current form could not support all features I wanted – most importantly, it was not safe to remove media (contrary to the above summary
Fixing it resulted in almost complete redesign and rewrite of original implementation, that is why this project is named supermount-ng to avoid confusion with Mandrake version.
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when are they going to give it a real partitioning program? I want to try it, but not til they nail that down.
>> In the future, you might want to do a little basic research before posting.
Thank you for the insult, but I was asking for user experiences, not advertising blab from a website.
i can’t wait for it to hit release status!
“Thank you for the insult, but I was asking for user experiences, not advertising blab from a website.”
Lol – I wouldn’t call it “advertising blab”. But you’re right – my bad: I misread what you wrote, sorry about that.
Speaking from personal experience, the old supermount patch didn’t work properly at all. I had persistent problems with it completely locking up my CD drive, similar to those reported in http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg44774.html… So it’s not like it would be difficult for this patch to top its predecessor.
Still, if the old implementation was really so bad that fixing the bugs necessitated a complete rewrite from the ground up, then it sounds like this -ng patch is long overdue. Kudos to the author. Maybe I’ll give supermount another shot.
Ingenious. Basically, the site says they have root and user accounts set to ‘disabled’, but allowing local (physical) logins through PAM. There is still no root password, but this way it’s much more secure than Lindows, and better for beginners than the traditional method.
Lindows should do this.
This distro runs fast and lacks all the clutter of mismatched throw every app in distros.
I’ll be glad when the installer lets you chose your partions though.
I just installed Ark Linux on a spare Dell GX1 (Pentium II 400 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 4MB built-in video). It took less than 15 minutes for the whole OS to install, picked up all the hardware and installed a very decent choice of applications.
The distribution feels cohesive, intuitive and was very snappy. Everything is where it should be. I am currently running Mandrake on a server and Red Hat on a laptop, but I will be switching to Ark on the laptop as soon as they get the partition tool going. I wonder why they don’t borrow some code from Mandrake’s Diskdrake which is the best partition manager I have seen in the Linux world.
The installer just suck. I’ve been trying it for several version and the result is still SUCK!!!. It still didn’t installed on my computer.