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  1. Re:d'uh. by ClamIAm · · Score: 1 · on Mark Shuttleworth Proposes Delaying next Ubuntu
    there are hundreds of distros already, and the only thing they all lack is polish, so yes.

    On the contrary my friend, PLD Linux is made by Poles in Poland, so they definitely have the whole thing covered.

  2. Black menu (Cthulhain?) by CapnGrunge · · Score: 1 · on Windows Longhorn Beta Screenshots

    I find similarity with (black|flux)box very disturbing.

  3. Re:Using *nix as a Primary Domain Controller by RWerp · · Score: 1 · on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services?

    poldek is a nice tool for that.

  4. modularized distros by andrewagill · · Score: 4, Informative · on Toward a New Kind of Linux Distribution

    I think PLD (Or in English) tries to be highly modularized:

    no restrictions for a set of packages that must be included in the distribution. The user can have access to every package already prepared for PLD. If something had been prepared in conjunction with other packages, it means somebody did need it, and maybe someone will need that package in the future

    Now, this is not to suggest that PLD does this well, or that it does this actually implements what Progeny is suggesting, but it's still a starting point.

  5. Yes, but... by wsapplegate · · Score: 2, Informative · on Good POP3 Server for Huge Mailboxes?

    I chose Cyrus for a customer that needed a MySQL backend for his server. But I quickly ran into a problem : the minimal timeout for unlocking the mailbox in the Cyrus POP3 server is 10 minutes (yes, that's right. 10 _minutes_ !). As people with buggy mailers (*cough* Outlook Express *cough*) are very common nowadays, I was forced to go patch the sources to weed out that stupid limitation. What's sad is that I found lots of messages on their mailing-list talking about this problem since a long time, and that one-liner patch never made it to the tree, which would lead me to think the authors are unconcerned about the needs of their users (I hope I'm mistaken here)...

    BTW, there is a fine POP3 server that we've used without problems for a year (and we've customers that *never* empty their mboxes, so we've huge 300 MB horrors lying on the primary MX hard disk). It has no frills but works like a charm. It's called Solid-POP3, it's Polish, made by the same people who brought you the PLD Linux distro, and you can download it here (alternatively, just do an `apt-get install solid-pop3d' if you run that good ole' Debian :-) Or else, you could try using LARTs on your unruly, mailbox-filling users... Good luck to you, anyway !

  6. bash as /bin/sh by zdzichu · · Score: 4, Informative · on A Real Bourne Shell for Linux?

    "On every distro I've ever seen /bin/sh is just a soft link to /bin/bash."
    You haven't seen Polished Linux Distribution. PLD's /bin/sh is not bash, and all 'bashisms' are removed from distribution's scripts - it's all plain /bin/sh.

    (Plus, PLD is fully IPV6 ready :)

  7. A Slack-like distro with good package management by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Is Slackware Fading Away?

    I used to live and die by Slackware, but the lack of package management does start to eat up a lot of your time. I can't afford to sit around rebuilding new versions of my applications, and I didn't want to head over to Debian.

    I found PLD. :)

    PLD is developed in Poland, and it uses RPMs with the APT front-end - very slick, very clean. They are constantly updating packages, and all I have to do is a simple $(apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade) to get the newest versions.

    Best of all, the base install is as "bare-knuckle" as it gets. PLD's philosophy is opposite of RedHat's. PLD will install only what you need to get working system up. From there, you can "apt-get install" your way to the exact system you want, without fighting with dependencies. It's swell. :)

    BTW, for the record, I'm still a huge Slack fan. Patrick has done a fantastic job, and I will pick Slack over RH any day of the week.

  8. Re:Backward Compatibility? by jochen · · Score: 1 · on IPv6 Ready For A Spin

    But Linux is coming closer...

    SuSE 6.4 is announced to be IPv6 ready.
    PLD (http://www.pld.org.pl/) already is.
    The current rawhide contains at least basic IPv6 functionality (both ping and traceroute are there).