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Interview With Lead Yoper Linux Developer

Posted by timothy on from the factionalism dept.

Bongoots writes "Andy Kissner from Linuxforums.org has just posted this: 'In the past few weeks, there has been a lot of hype and controversy surrounding Yoper, ranging from insults to ruthless Gentoo comparisons. I recently sat down with Andreas Girardet, who is a key developer for Yoper, to dispell all the rumors and discuss the direction in which the Yoper project is headed.' Click here to read the rest of the interview."

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  1. Re:Oh well by sparcnut · · Score: 5, Informative
    Were the old 350Mhz celerons considered i686 or only i586? I can't remember, but I think they were all i686. But in the unlikely event they were i586-based, that is why it crashed and burned for you. Too bad. I was hoping to get some impression of how it would run on my old 200 MHz Pentium Pro. Anybody else try on a slower machine like that?

    Celerons are all i686 class as are Pentium Pros and Pentium IIs. Pentiums and Pentium-MMXs are i586.

    I had Slackware 9.0 running on a P2-233 with 64M RAM a couple years ago and it was reasonably fast, even running Mozilla 1.4. Expect a PPro-200 to be the same or slightly better because the PPro's L2 cache is clocked twice as fast as on the P2. Slack 9.0 is mostly optimized from i386 to i586 depending on the packages, so expect Yoper to be _much_ faster.

    I'd say it would be manageable for email, web browsing, and that kind of thing but not much more. It'd make a real nice X terminal if you have some bigger boxes on a 100mbit network.
    --
    perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
  2. Re:One Question by AhaIndia · · Score: 5, Informative
    I am a Yoper user. I downloaded Yoper 2.1 iso and installed Yoper on my notebook.
    Important points about Installation
    1) Text base installer
    2) Default boot-loader LILO, with Grub as option
    3) Partition type can be ext(2,3) or reiserfs
    4) there is no step for chosing the packages (mentioned in the article)
    Configuration
    1) Detects most of your hardware automatically.
    2) Launches Sax2 for X configuration (yes, it uses XFree86, not XOrg, yet)
    Yoper Desktop
    After installation, you'll have a KDE desktop, with (hopefully) all your hardware (network, sound, video etc.) working properly.
    First thing that will surprise you, will be the speed. Even an old hardware will become more responsive.
    Now you can update the system using apt (Yoper uses RPM packages and apt RPM for easy updates)
    #apt-get update
    #apt-get upgrade

    If you want gnome, then
    #apt-get install Ygnome

    Other information
    It comes with...
    1) kernel 2.6.8.1-3
    2) KDE 3.3
    3) Gnome 2.6 (installable from repositories)
    4) Sax2
    5) YoperConf (configuration utility to manage your system)
    6) OpenOffice
    ...
    And yes, it is so fast that I can play quake3 (windows version demo) with wine (not wineX, just simple wine) without any problems.


    Some more comments on azeemarif.blogspot.com


    --
    ~Aha~