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Libranet 2.8 Released
Jon Danzig writes "Hi, Libranet 2.8 has been released and I hope you will inform your readers. Libranet is our implementation of Debian to which we have added our installer, up-to-date software e.g. KDE, Gnome, kernel, etc., and generally packaged GNU/Linux into a super smart fast and stable system. The installer has sophisticated hardware detection and setup with flexable installation of software packages. We keep hearing that the Linux Desktop is on the horizon and while the horizon never gets any closer Libranet is steadily making its way in that direction."
Now, admittedly I'm not a KDE user so this might be something that KDE imposes rather than Libranet, but even so is it really necessary to have three submenus for this?
Cheers,
Ian
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Why do they need a NEW distrobution for this? Can't they just add their improvements to Debian? Now I need 10 distros based off Debian. One for installs, one for graphics, one for music, one for work, one for servers... I mean come on! Let's work together here!
Also do they maintain their own apt repository?
good question. In my opinion, to pay $70 for basically... well... knoppix, they better keep their own apt repository stocked with everything I could possibly want, and the latest builds. I want to apt-get the latest kernel within a day or two of release if I have to pay that much.
Otherwise, what possible motivation would I have to buy it? It doesn't really give me anything.
And don't think this is just the oss-won't-pay-for-anything mentality. Really... the screenshots look exactly like knoppix without the name. knoppix has the hardware detection, is based on debian, etc. So what logical reason would I have to pay for something that I can already get for free?
Can someone please explain to me why they need to have a 'Preferences', a 'Tools', a 'System Settings', a 'Utilities', and a damn 'Control Center'!!! MAKE A CONTROL PANEL!! Put it all in the same place!! Every time I go to look for a dang program setting I have to wade through menu options forever! Is this some strange organizational system that makes sense to everyone else but me?!?? :)
No I didnt spell check this post...
Businesses may want the a support contact that I don't think you can get from Debian.
As Debian is sooooo stable (and changes infrequently) I always wondered why more SW companies don't list Debian as a suported Linux platform. But it comes down to support, theyre not going to qualify a product on a platform they can't get business support for.
It's crap that SW companies will qualify a product on a RedHat or SuSE platform that becomes outdated in 6 months. Its to expensive to retest every Six months so technicaly don't support newer distributions (this why RH is shipping AS and AW versions).
Perhaps thats what Libranet's aiming for - bu then again they appear to be a little known disti so I'm talking crap.
"Things that you own end up owning you" - Tyler Durden (via Diogenes of Sinope).
I agree that RH is moving things in a good direction; can't say I agree that they're getting it right.
They are most certainly "getting it right". When I can plug in a printer and have it working in 4 mouse clicks, or my Palm, or whatever else, I'd say things are in pretty good shape. While Windows isn't largely usable, it's better than most OSS default desktop environments. RedHat's modifications and clean-up certainly clears Windows right out of the picture -- it'd say is more in league with OS X as far as usability goes.
Sorry to hear that you've discovered how terrible GNOME really is.
"Out of the box", it's unusable. I don't know what they were thinking with the default Sawfish configuration or the arrangement of the Mac-like menu bar across the top and the tasks list on the bottom. The UI is a travesty and doesn't work in an intelligent way. The technology on the otherhand is good. See, I am not saying KDE sucks or GNOME sucks... they simply do not have good default configurations.
RH users, who don't seem to realize that what GNOME and KDE are on RH doesn't necessarily represent reality.
You're missing the whole point. It is a good thing that a distro tweaks or renovates a UI to make it better. Like I said, KDE and GNOME's defaults are REFERENCES. They are a possibility, but they are meant to be refined for end-users.
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the only thing I agree with you on is that
1) Knoppix is nice.
2) Libranet would do well to lower their
price. 30-50
Knoppix doesn't have Adminmenu.
For a lot of newbs Libranet is what they need.