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Lunar Linux 1.0 Released
Ivan writes "Lunar Linux 1.0 was released today. It's a source based distribution, with gcc 3.2 and the latest versions of packages such as Mozilla 1.1, OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 and GNOME 2 and KDE 3. From the about page on their website: 'In the beginning Lunar was a fork of Sorcerer GNU Linux (SGL). The fork occurred in late January to early February of 2002 and was originally made up of a small group of people who wanted to collaboratively develop and extend the Sorcerer technology.' Download the ISOs here."
Download the ISOs here.
why ?
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
When their server is running off of their own distribution.
Karma: Not Particularly Funny.
Source based distros strike me as a little silly. There are only two major CPU manufacturers, each with a handful of models. Only three or four companies make most motherboards. Creative has a de facto monopoly in the sound card market with it's Live! series, and there are only a couple different video chipsets. Everything else conforms to well-known standards, and is hidden behind kernel drivers anyway. To top it off, extremely few applications benefit from any kind of CPU-specific optimization, and almost all of these (mostly things like mp3 and other media players) can be downloaded as optimized binaries. A simple custom kernel can be built in a minute or so on a newer machine, and acheive 99% of the speed gained by an entirely optimized distribution (which is pretty tiny to begin with). Does anyone really think that gzip cares whether it's running on an AMD or an Intel chip? Source based distros are great for "1337" case-modders with no knowledge of software or Linux internals and who have way too much time on their hands. For anyone else, they're just a waste of cycles. I for one will be glad when this fad dies out.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Yet Another Fucktarded Loser Dude.
They have a term for that already: Anonymous Coward