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Vidalinux Desktop OS 1.1 Screenshot Tour 30

Posted by timothy from the faster-than-downloading-it dept.
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.
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  • Gentoo + Anaconda (Score:3, Interesting)

    by dn15 ( 735502 ) on Tuesday December 28, 2004 @08:29PM (#11205210)
    Gentoo with Fedora's installer. Nice! I've always been intrigued by Gentoo (not a fanboy! :P) but the installation process was too time-consuming to justify toying with it much. It looks like Vidalinux solves that problem.

  • Never understood the point... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by nile_list ( 812696 ) on Tuesday December 28, 2004 @08:38PM (#11205267) Homepage
    What's the point of screenshot tours for distros? All distros have KDE and Gnome and whathaveyou. The only thing that's "unique" about the screenshots is that the wallpapers are just each distro's logo.
  • ... with the screenshot tour. It is only a tour of anaconda and gnome. Anaconda I've seen often enough on other distros. Gnome is in every (desktop) distro.

    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)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 28, 2004 @09:04PM (#11205454)
    Looks like a nice setup, a Gentoo-based desktop-OS, something I haven't seen much of (anyone know of any others?) but This [vidalinux.com] is a joke. You only get certain* apps when you buy the purchase version.

    *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)

    by ravenspear ( 756059 )
    Is anyone else freaking out from Rob's ugly mug on that ad?
  • Vidalinux Desktop OS beta2 is now based on the 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 kernel, which includes improvements in many different areas, including scalability, device support, and performance.

    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?

  • ...or are there too many distros to keep track of? Granted, I am a Windows user (ASP.NET and Sql Server development is, well, pretty difficult on other platforms) so maybe it's simply beyond my understanding why there seem to be dozens and dozens of distros when there is only one linux kernel (there is only one kernel, right -- or has it been forked?). Also beyond me is the schism between KDE/Gnome, XFree86/X.org, etc. It seems to me that if the Linux community would just bury the hatchet and agree on a bes
    • No its getting a bit silly. There seems to be 2-4 big groups of distros, Slackware etc, Debian and RedHat/Fedora and maybe Suse. Each of these has a distinct method of doing things. On top of that you have a bunch of distros for different countries, that are designed to support the language or languages of that country. And then you have a bunch for specific tasks (embeded, media center etc)

      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)

      by gregmac ( 629064 )
      maybe it's simply beyond my understanding why there seem to be dozens and dozens of distros when there is only one linux kernel

      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

      • 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


        • "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/kde; xorg/xfree86; linux/*bsd/dragonfly)? I think that too many choices only results in unending confusion and a complete reluctance to abandon Windows by those who might otherwise make the switch.

          How do you select the hardware your Windows platform will be running on? After all, there are just so many choices.

        • 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,

          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
          • >> On a more personal note as a VB.NET developer...

            > 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
            • 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.

              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
    • I agree 100000%.

      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)

    by Laxitive ( 10360 ) on Wednesday December 29, 2004 @01:39AM (#11206884) Journal
    Since it seems to be all the rage nowadays, I too, am joining the fun.

    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
  • Seems little more impressive than Fedora at present. As said already, the screen-shot tour says very little. What I care most about is the bundle of software and games that comes with the distro.
  • new updates including the 2.6.9 kernel

    Oh, that is so yesterday! Keep up, people! [kernel.org]

    ;)

  • I have been using vidalinux for several months now. Vidalinux isn't really yet another distrobution, think of it more as a very easy way to install gentoo. and gentoo, once installed, is an ideal operating system. At this point, there is no way to tell that my system originated from vidalinux, because every package has, by now, been updated by portage. But those of you who have been wanting to try gentoo, but have been turned off by the annoying installation process, definately give vidalinux a try. As fo

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