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Aurox Linux 10.0.1 Beta Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the offshoot dept.

sarumont writes "Here's another lesser-known distro trying to make a splash on the big scene. Aurox Linux is a Fedora-based distro mainly developed in Poland. Even in its tenth release cycle, it is still a young distro and as such: small. Could it be the next big thing? Even gentoo was small and "lesser-known" once. Check out this review, hot off the presses at LinuxForumsDOTorg."

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  1. Re:too many by puddpunk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was going to mod you up, but then I decided I would reply to you instead...

    I agree with what you say and admit you have quite an insight into the matter. For instance, I thought the amount of debian-based distro's were reaching critical mass. Ubuntu Linux came out and I installed it on my tiny 450MHz laptop, gnome 2.8 and all. I was so damned impressed. I've use dozens and dozens of distros (Gentoo, debian, suse, knoppix, xandros, fedora, redhat the list goes on...) but this one still managed to blow me away, and fit my needs perfectly, more so than debian which is what it's based on.

    If you've heard the saying "Jack of all trades, Master of none" I think you'll start to understand _why_ we have so many distro's. We need different distro's that fit different purposes.

    I need an up to date yet stable distro for my slow laptop -> Ubuntu
    I need a very stable and secure distro for my server -> Debian
    I need a flexable hobby distro for my desktop -> Gentoo
    I need a distro that will be familiar to a windows user -> Xandros/SUSE
    I need a distro that is suited for workstations -> SUSE/Red Hat
    I need a server distro with GUI administration for an ex-windows user -> SUSE Enterprise

    I think we get the point... Why should we have to try to ram a distro into every situation, each problem is different so each solution needs to be.

    IMHO, that is part of where MS went wrong with windows. Suddenly everyone who's used windows on the desktop thinks that they can run a server for their work (Hey, why hire an IT guy!) so we end up with hundreds of open spam relays, rooted boxes and DDoS zombies. Of course, there are advantages for having a common platform between desktops and servers but the problems can outweigh the benifits.

    So after all that, you can basically boil my post down to: Use the right tool for the right job.

    Yes, perhaps the 100s of distro's need to be cut down some, but IMO not as much as your suggesting.

    Cheers,
    Chris.