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1 • DistroWatch.com banner (by Thomas Chung at 2003-07-14 04:29:00 GMT)
Hi Ladislav,
Can I use your new DistroWatch.com banner on my website?
I think I want to link from "Linux Links"
Thanks,
Thomas
LinuxInstall.org Project
2 • About Ron Garland's Liindows review (by L. Gandolfo at 2003-07-14 11:22:44 GMT)
I'd like to ask distrowatch to have at least a quick look in future before recommending a review to its readers.
I have never seen such a poorly written review: amateurish, tons of factual mistakes, confused and confusing.
Regardless of wheter you like Lindows or not, reading such a review can only be a pain.
I also wrote twice to Mr Garland, pointing out, among others, that the default browser for Lindows 4 is no longer Netscape but Mozilla. I never got a reply.
3 • Banners and getting the message out (by nitroushhh on 2003-07-14 13:07:01 GMT)
Hi,
I like the banner. Hope you get some other good ones. What about t-shirts for us to buy from you. I was thinking it would be great to have more general logo to promote Linux and then have the web address below on a t-shirt.
Some simple catch line and logo. With Penguins of course.
I'm sure people can come up with better ones but heres a couple off the top of my head.
"Look into Linux"
"What's Linux ??? Ask Me"
regards Nitroushhh
4 • k3b (by Anonymous on 2003-07-14 16:34:42 GMT)
k3b, which had a new release today, is missing from your list of new tracked applications.
5 • Now that I think about it, I'd like a shirt myself (by Benjamin Vander Jagt at 2003-07-14 22:42:48 GMT)
I'd love to wear a shirt that says something pithy like, "Ask me about Linux and why it's better than Windows." I want my customers to ask me, as opposed to pushing Linux on them.
Ladislav, I don't know if you would get more than one purchase from me, since I doubt that *any* of my customers would have the same incentive I would have to buy them. However, I might be interesting in making DistroWatch labelled shirts a company uniform.
6 • About Ron Garland's Lindows review (by warpengi on 2003-07-15 05:07:43 GMT)
I have to agree with L. Gandolfo's comments. The review was very amateurish. I also e-mailed (in a nice way) a couple of corrections for his consideration and received no response.
By the way I like the Distrowatch weekly logo.
7 • Deli 0.3 (by Anonymous on 2003-07-15 06:25:32 GMT)
i've tried it - not for newbies. looks promising. I think the untapped market is slightly older laptops/notebooks. They are still i686 class and can run non-bloat apps very well. I like to see someone have the balls to package up a small distro complied for i686 or better but with out all the bloat crap . Installed with essential apps - about 200MB on HDD.
Be light and nimble - stop following the windoz bloat crap.
Distrowatch should support these smaller and nimble distros more.
Readers demand a better experience without a $1000 hardware upgrade. Voice your support. Software can always get better.
8 • How about DW interviews ? (by Leo on 2003-07-15 11:38:08 GMT)
I wonder if it would be a good idea for DW to do regular interviews with developers or management from interesting distros, specially the emerging ones, to see what the focus of the distro is, how they differ from others, how they compare to others, etc. That is, to make interviews from a DW point of view: to sort out the distro mess :-)
9 • Mandrake 9.2 beta (by Leo on 2003-07-15 15:00:51 GMT)
I thought I should post a quick note. Cooker is coming along nicely, it is becoming useable. I upgraded most of my 9.1 installation to cooker (some packages are still having conflicts, typical of the alpha cycle). I don't follow the cooker list, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the first beta soon. Also, I think 9.2 will be *very* stable, given how smoothly the early cooker is running ...
10 • Mandrake 9.2 beta (by Leo on 2003-07-15 15:54:19 GMT)
I thought I should post a quick note. Cooker is coming along nicely, it is becoming useable. I upgraded most of my 9.1 installation to cooker (some packages are still having conflicts, typical of the alpha cycle). I don't follow the cooker list, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the first beta soon. Also, I think 9.2 will be *very* stable, given how smoothly the early cooker is running ...
11 • RE: How about DW interviews (by ladislav at 2003-07-15 16:08:09 GMT)
Sure, why not? I've interviewed Klaus Knopper before and it was a very pleasant experience. Interviews are actually a lot less work than reviews, because most of the work is done by the interviewee :-)
Anybody in particular you have in mind?
12 • Logo/DWWeekly Icon (by darkproximity at 2003-07-15 17:06:05 GMT)
Thanks for using my distrowatch weekly icon, im glad people like it, if you need any more dont hesitate to ask!
13 • Lindows: ridiculous! (by GP on 2003-07-15 17:42:04 GMT)
All you have to do to circumvent Lindows' plans:
1) sign up for the 15-day trial,
2) Leave credit card number
3) Cancel within the trial period. (Don't forget and just hope your will is well registered, etc.)
All you have to do to obey Klaus Kmopper's plans:
1) Download.
GP
14 • RE: RE: How about DW interviews (by Leo on 2003-07-15 19:05:08 GMT)
How about Bero ? Ark Linux sounds so much like a cool project, but it is not really clear (at least to me) how they plan to get an identity. They look, for different reasons, a lot like redhat, some times mandrake, some times debian, some times SuSE. He must have something in mind that at least I am missing, otherwise he would have joined the Debian project and pushed for Desktop and end-user friendliness within debian. Anyway, that would be an idea ... Thanks for asking !
15 • DW Interviews (by Anonymous on 2003-07-16 09:34:19 GMT)
It would be nice to see interviews of some of the niche distros.
Particularly those small polished projects that don't have a the advantage of a PR dept issuing press releases every 5 minutes :-)
Also non-english projects that we hear about but remain fairly obscure because of the babelfish translation.
Here an example list in no particular order:
* Kurumin - Bootable CD that appears to have some interesting features like - linmodem support etc.
- Find out more about the developer. What he's trying to do. Future plans ....
* Damn Small Linux - Business Card size linux with graphical links browser (cool!)
- Again, find out about developer. Future direction. Improved HD installation etc
* Educational releases like ADIOS
- Any insights about how linux is being used in education.
* Anyone working with linux for old PCs
- Are any suitable for charity groups - aged, disadvantaged etc?
- what about userfriendly with quick installs/configuration.
Best regards
rob
16 • RE: RE: How about DW interviews (by Anonymous on 2003-07-16 13:17:14 GMT)
Hi Ladislav
Thank you for *your* feedback :-) How about Bero ? To me Ark linux has a lot of real potential, but I still don't understand how it plans to fit in the "big 4" scenario (redhat, suse, debian, mandrake). It looks something like a user friendly redhat (mandrake), with a community approach (debian), and very strongly desktop oriented (suse, mandrake). In the end, Mandrake seems the closest competitor, but who knows what Bero has in mind in this regard ? I read a recent interview and this point is still not clear.
THe bottomline I think is: yes, interviews would not imply much work from you, and uf properly oriented to the objectives of DW, they can be very very useful.
Cheers
17 • DW interviews (by Leo on 2003-07-16 17:31:39 GMT)
One more idea re interviews: you can announce interviews some time in advance, and set a forum where visitors (or may be just time-savers, dunno) can post questions. Then you can include a couple questions from the forum that you consider relevant (nobody should feel offended if their question is not picked). :-)
18 • This year's Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award (by W T Zhu on 2003-07-17 07:14:28 GMT)
Don't bother in this year's Linux Journal Reader's Choice Award. Just have a look at the poster's comments and you'll agree with us:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6967&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
19 • Lindows has sponsored the Mozilla project (by W T Zhu on 2003-07-19 04:16:42 GMT)
Acording to Kevin Carmony the Lindows president in this post Lindows has sponsored the Mozilla project. Kevin announced that they have given them "Some cash but more important joint developement on several nice features to add to Mozilla, that will be given back to the project of course."
A little surprising, isn't it?
20 • i have linex (by Crissy at 2004-04-27 11:49:21 GMT)
I have linex. And i love it. It doesnt crash like windows does. But latly, i have been looking for a buddy icon, and have not been able to get one. This is because i dont have windows. Would you know of any web sites that have buddy icon for linex users?
21 • please (by Crissy at 2004-04-27 11:53:04 GMT)
Please e-mail me with any answers to to the question that i have posted above.
Thank you
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Oralux was a GNU/Linux distribution for the blind or visually impaired people. It eases a fast access to GNU/Linux. This distribution doesn't require any installation since it runs from the CD-ROM. The audio desktop replaces a graphical user interface.
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