Ark Linux Review, A Distro with an Identity Crisis

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 21, 2006 @04:39PM from the who-wants-a-stable-identity dept.

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review of Ark Linux 2006.1, which launched earlier this month. Overall, the reviewer likes this free KDE-based distro, but had to question some implementation choices, such as using the less-compatible Konqueror over Firefox for its default web browser. And for a distro that bills itself as 'a Linux distribution for everyone — designed to be easy to install and learn for users without prior Linux' the installation should hide command-line scrolling and be able to more automatically install standard graphics card drivers."

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What's the point of this? by SumeyDevil · 2006-08-21 18:01 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Seriously, ANOTHER Linux distribution? Who is going to use this? I know the whole "different strokes for different folks" but no newbie is going to use this, they're going to use Ubuntu. The people that are going to use this distro are the tinkerers that have the knowledge and capability to customize their own distro to meet their own spec. Distros like this piss me off. Shit like this is holding Linux back. Instead of forking every time and serve a user base of 200, why don't you use your talent and skill to polish a distro that's actually going to go somewhere!