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Review of Yoper Linux v2.1

Posted by timothy on from the what-you-want-it-to-be dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "An interesting review of Yoper Linux has just been posted posted at linuxforums.org. Yoper Linux really does look like it could be the first serious competition Gentoo has had in a long time."

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  1. Link to yoper by jsprat · · Score: 4, Informative
    Since the submitter didn't provide a direct link to Yoper Linux, I will.


    Does anyone else think it's strange that a story about yoper has no link to their home page, but does have a link to gentoo?

  2. .torrent for latest version by chickenmonger · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://apt.yoper.com/torrent/yoper.torrent

    Help save their gracious FTP mirrors.

  3. Remembering the Yoper Jerk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Does anyone remember the jerk from Yoper who was badmouthing the /. crowd? Yoper wanted $99 for their distro, and they bragged heavily. People started to call BS, and the Yoper jerk went berserk. That was the first time I ever heard of Yoper and the last time I cared. At least they learned what bad PR can do for business (Yoper is free now--ha!).

    1. Re:Remembering the Yoper Jerk by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      He's quoted here in an old /. article from when the flamewar was going on in the Yoper forums.

  4. Re:Office Speed by EvanED · · Score: 3, Informative

    Start up times under Windows:

    MS Word - 10 sec
    OO Writer - 12 sec

    Sad? Yes. But specific to OO.org? No.

  5. Re:That's great by be-fan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Last I checked, Windows doesn't play DVDs out of the box. Or Divx's, for that matter. Yet, people somehow manage to do both...

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  6. Re:How Gentoo won the community by hotspotbloc · · Score: 4, Informative
    but the speed difference is barely noticeable comparing between other distros.

    Check out Mandrake 9.1 vs Gentoo 1.4. IMO there's a big speed avantage over some of distros simply because it's quite easy to tune and tweak a Gentoo install not to load drivers or programs it doesn't need. Comparing Suse 9.1 Pro to Gentoo (I backed up my Gentoo box, wiped the drive, installed, tested and by the end of the day had Gentoo back on), Gentoo won the speed contest hands down.

    The only thing they got going for them is the multiple architecture support.

    I think Portage is pretty cool. It's the only distro that I've use that could install mplayer correctly the first time (emerge mplayer). Gentoo is hardly perfect but it is a very stable distro with unique features. I've been using it for over a year now and have yet to find anything better for my purposes and in my opinion.

    No GNU/Linux distro is the best for everyone. Having choices is a good thing. Gentoo isn't for everyone but is pretty damn good.

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