Vidalinux Desktop OS 1.1 Screenshot Tour 30
linuxbeta writes "An update to Vidalinux Desktop OS has been released. This release sports many new updates including the 2.6.9 kernel, improvements in many different areas including reiser4 support, wireless drivers, scalability, performance, and support for NPTL. Also included is the Fedora Core 3 Anaconda installer, Udev and hald for hardware autodetection, GNOME 2.8, KDE-3.3.1, and the OSX styled kicker Gdesklets 0.3.1." An interesting combination of Gentoo Linux with Red Hat's Anaconda installer; OSDir.com has a screenshot tour.
Gentoo + Anaconda (Score:3, Interesting)
Never understood the point... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Never understood the point... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Never understood the point... (Score:1)
Don't bother... (Score:1)
It seems that the only thing new distros give you these days is a new desktop theme...
Boooooring.
Nice, at first look (Score:3, Insightful)
*this includes FREE OPENSOURCE software such as Gaim, Mozilla Firefox, xine, k3b, etc
How can they charge extra for a purchase version because it includes free software?
I think I'll stick with Ubuntu, where it's a great desktop os based on a very stable distro (Debian) and is completely free, and always will be, yet still commercial in that they have full-time dedicated employees improving it 24/7, and where I can "apt-get install thisgreatapp" in a few seconds.
Nice try, but really, laughable when compared with the alternatives.
Next!
Oh God (Score:1, Offtopic)
Comparing Distro's by Kernel (Score:2)
Ok, so they used Gentoo's kernel for the patches, is this kernel better than Fedora's, Mandrakes, Suse or a new patched tarball?
Sounds like they are trying to take the best of everything and make a distro, but not have to compile like Gentoo.
Why would I switch distros just for a new kernel?
Is it just me? (Score:2)
Re:Is it just me? (Score:2)
The problem is that there are now so many that you can't keep track. Every time I hear about a new distro I ask, so w
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, there is only one kernel (that I know of). There are many distros - some have totally different architectures, some are just slightly different ideas, some have different ideals, some are designed for a specific purpose or fill a niche, others are almost identical and have no reason for existing besides that someone made one of them. The real answer here is choice and freedom
Re: Freedom of Choice and Competition (Score:2)
The big thing here is - no one is competing with Microsoft.
If the linux community is not competing with Microsoft, then why all the constant comparisons to Windows about how linux is superior, which applications run on which platform, discussions of how to get more users off of Windows and onto a Linux desktop, etc. "Freedom of choice" is a beautiful thing in linux-land, but for someone on the outside looking in, which choice is the correct one for moving line of business apps to linux en masse (gnome
Re: Freedom of Choice and Competition (Score:2)
How do you select the hardware your Windows platform will be running on? After all, there are just so many choices.
Re: Freedom of Choice and Competition (Score:3, Insightful)
What else are you going to compare it to? Obviously if you're using Linux as a desktop, then you're going to compare it to other desktops.
discussions of how to get more users off of Windows and onto a Linux desktop, etc.
Well, I don't think I touched on this, but of course having more users means more market share, which means mor
Re: Freedom of Choice and Competition (Score:2)
> Well, you're looking at it from the wrong level.
> Using VB.NET, you're stuck with Microsoft, as are
> your users.
Not true. BASIC as a language family is just generally sneered at, which is somewhat laughable in my opinion. Granted, nobody does kernel development in VB nor should they -- that's not the purpose of VB. As a rapid application development language it a great choice. The language is simple and clean -- perhaps too simple to be s
Re: Freedom of Choice and Competition (Score:1)
I personally am not a huge fan of VB, due to I guess two things: it's primarily aimed at MS platforms (I'm getting more into cross-platform stuff, mostly web since it's the fastest way) and I dislike the syntax and style of the language.
I think I share your views on writing actual applications though - personally, I think C (and possibly C++) has no
Re:Is it just me? (Score:3, Interesting)
While we're on the subject, how about we fix the following?:
1) There are way too many different attractive females walking around. They should all look the same to avoid confusion.
2) I HATE going to a restaurant and having to spend all that time browsing through the menus. They should just give me meatloat and tell me to shutup.
3) Ferrari or Kia? Nah, just make them all Kia's. They both do the same exact damn thing after all!
4) All of these companies, LIKE MICROSOFT, are produci
Announcing: EMTALinux and DPPRFLinux (Score:5, Funny)
Within the coming month, we shall see the release of my latest creative efforts: EMTALinux and DPPRFLinux. Now, these aren't just two arbitrary linux distributions, with the usual selection of software from the medley merry-go-round of Linux installers, desktop environments, and package managers.
No sir. These distributions serve a distinct purpose.
EMTALinux is a linux distribution specially optimized for expatriate Moldavian trapeze artists, while DPPRFLinux services the woefully ignored dyslexic post-punk rock fan demographic.
If you are an expatriate Moldavian trapeze artist, or a dyslexic post-punk rock fan.. these are exciting times for you! Do not despair, the linux community has not ignored you!
Stay tuned for more information.
-Laxitive
Re:Announcing: EMTALinux and DPPRFLinux (Score:2)
Re:Announcing: EMTALinux and DPPRFLinux (Score:2)
-Laxitive
Not Very Informative (Score:1)
Phooey! (Score:1)
Oh, that is so yesterday! Keep up, people! [kernel.org]
vidalinux user (Score:1)