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Sorcerer Review, and News of Impending Doom

Posted by timothy on from the some-that-die-deserve-life-and-vice-versa dept.

osworks writes: "There is an review of the Sorcerer Linux distribution over at linuxworld.com that is worth a read. I've been running SGL on my Inspiron for a month now, and have the same impression as the author. It took a really long time to install, but was educational and rather fun. Some discouraging news near the bottom about how the maintainer needs some development help, or it will be the end of Sorcerer. This is one of the most exciting new distros to come along in a long time, and that would be a shame."

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  1. Heh... by Picass0 · · Score: 5, Funny


    Red Wizard needs food badly.

    1. Re:Heh... by kiwipeso · · Score: 2, Funny

      BSD is dying, but it appears that it will return like a phoenix with the arrival of the Kaos BSD operating system.

      Meanwhile, the best linux ever is now dead. Nevermind the fact it only had a few dozen slashdot geeks actually use after waiting all week to compile it.
      Ladies (all 2 of you on slashdot) and gentlemen, Linux is dead. Tux the Penguin is extinct. (no, it's not the stink of GNU hippies)

      --
      - Kaos games and encryption systems developer
  2. Goddammit! by Scooter · · Score: 2, Funny

    I thought Doom3 was imminent :)

    try not to used reserved words in your headlines :P

  3. A real-life sorcerer? by Rommel · · Score: 3, Funny

    I especially liked this line in the review (emphasis mine):

    A real-life sorcerer keeps his spells in a book called a grimoire.

    Where do I find a real-life sorcerer? I have some spells I wouldn't mind cast.

  4. Re:Am I the only one by DrunkenPenguin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gentoo is actually a specie of fast and small penguins in the real world.

  5. Interesting installer by Fizzlewhiff · · Score: 4, Funny

    Casting spells to install applications sounds pretty cool. While I have found tools like Red Hat's Up2Date and Ximian's Red Carpet very nice there's still some dependancy problems encountered when you try to go with the latest and greatest versions of Gnome and other libraries. From the review it sounded like Sorcerer downloads and compiles the packages you are installing. Would it pull dependencies too?

    I'll have to check this distro out. I can see it now.

    >Turn on PC
    Your monitor flashes. You are greeted with the message "Loading Windows 2000..."
    >Insert Sorcerer boot floppy
    There is an audible click as the floppy settles in the drive.
    >Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete
    A menu is presented giving you several options [more]
    >Click Shutdown
    Your computer restarts. Your floppy drive begins to whirr and churn with excitement. You feel a sense of power rush through you. A message slowly begins to emerge on your screen.
    >read message
    Hail and well met sysadmin. Sorcerer Linux sees you have Windows currently installed on this PC. What is thy choice friend?
    >cast magic missile at /dev/hda1
    Formatting... Please wait.

    --

    'Same speed C but faster'