Distros To Try: Slackware 9.0-rc1 And Yoper 1.0

FrosGate writes "Slackware 9.0-rc1 is now available for public consumption over at www.slackware.com. From the site: 'Some of the main components included are the 2.4.20 Linux kernel, KDE 3.1, GNOME 2.2, and XFree86 4.3.0, as well as gcc-3.2.2 and the latest development libraries. Enjoy!' Enjoy is right!" And Scorchen writes "YOPER has released Version 1.0 of their increasingly popular distro. This is the their first stable release." Here's the announcment. The website claims "With Yoper it is possible to import packages from all the other major distros including rpm's, deb's, and tgz packages."

Comments

Bake-oven lies for yoper.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait till you check the price of yoper. Xandros get's my money, even over SuSE's "Office Desktop".

what?

[spoon42]

Yoper. Right.

Shouldn't last long, with an 80k PNG of text.

Aside from that, they use alien to import other distros' packages, set CFLAGS, and possibly want to become the next Lindows... (from the about page)

What is the purpose of Yoper?

Yoper has not been designed to compete with or replace existing Linux distros. However, it will be used to support commercial conversions of office software from Windows to Yoper. These conversions will be done by trained and certified professionals within the Yoper franchise. Most technical issues with conversion can be resolved quickly by typing a few commands or running a few purpose built scripts. We prefer this method to having to develop and support an auto-detection system, that in time itself will become increasingly difficult to support.

So, what?

Other than yet another distro. Possibly with delusions of grandeur. And they seem to want your money.