Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark, Conectiva

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Recent Apt-Gettable Goodness From Ark, Conectiva

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 25, 2004 @07:32AM from the slickness dept.

JimLynch writes "When you think of Linux, certain names spring to mind: Red Hat, SuSE--even Libranet. But you almost never hear someone say "Hey, did you download the latest version of Ark Linux?" Well, it's too bad, because Ark Linux might someday be a viable contender for the Linux desktop crown and it surely deserves some recognition as such at this point. Despite being labeled an alpha, Ark Linux is one amazing little distro." In other distro news, lmvaz writes "Conectiva, the biggest Linux distribution of Brazil and South America released yesterday the 'Conectiva Linux 10 - Technology Preview 2,' bringing the kernel 2.6.1, KDE 3.2 rc1, Gnome 2.4, Mozilla 1.5, OpenOffice 1.1, etc. The release notes are available here and the torrents for download are here. The final release is expected by the end of the first semester of this year. It's a nice bundle for people wanting to help getting the 2.6 linux kernel in shape."

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Ark Linus is the best, except by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 07:36 · Score: 5, Funny

For some reason, it contains two of every binary.
1. Re:Ark Linus is the best, except by baywulf · 2004-01-25 07:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I think Linus has forked three little binaries if I recall correctly :-)
Gentoo? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 07:38 · Score: 3, Funny

I use Gentoo; how does this affect me??
1. Re:Gentoo? by c0dedude · 2004-01-25 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  We'll tell you when your compile finishes.
  
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  Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
End of the first semester? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 07:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Nothing says "professional" like scheduling release times around school semesters.

"We'll fix those security vulnerabilities once these pesky midterms are done".
Re:wait just a minute folks by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 07:51 · Score: 1, Funny

Nice post, but I think your point would be made clearer if you used more underscores for some reason.
Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-25 07:59 · Score: 2, Funny

1. Novell buys SUSE.
2. Gives away product for free.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!!

Sounds like a great idea to me!
Re:A comment... by FFFish · 2004-01-25 08:08 · Score: 4, Funny

Fersure. Quit copying Microsoft, and start copying someone who knows what they're doing -- Apple!

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When did I make a Linux distro? by Ark42 · 2004-01-25 08:17 · Score: 2, Funny

Its a joke, don't mod me down.

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