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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Speaking of standard graphics drivers... by Toreo+asesino · 2006-08-21 20:03 · Score: 0, Redundant

I've noticed the default nv driver for NVIDIA cards in Linux seems to be incredibly slow! Ok, it get's you up & running and it's not exactly difficult to install the proper nvidia driver which runs like the clappers, but it just amazes me how sluggish the default one is - dragging Windows around in X-Windows gives severe tearing effect.

Anyone else suffer from this? My graphics card is the G-Force 6600, and I've tested this on Ubuntu 6 and FC5.

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