They make a bold claim...

linus72 · 06-02-2010, 08:55 AM

I was checking out Softpedia's new linux stuff today and found
aLinux 14.0

from their webpage here
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Syste...inux-890.shtml

Quote:

Especially made for those new to Linux, we believe this to be the most PROFESSIONAL, FASTEST and FUN distribution yet!. We believe our applications exceed SuSE, Red Hat, Corel, Slackware, Caldera, Mandrake, etc ...

That's a Bold claim, no?
Better than Slackware?!

Anybody use this OS?
LOL

Mr-Bisquit · 06-02-2010, 10:56 AM

It's a general purpose distribution.
I've used it in qemu.
Like any Linux distribution, you can make it better or screw it up.

brianL · 06-02-2010, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

Better than Slackware?!

Impossible!

XavierP · 06-02-2010, 11:21 AM

Well, it's certainly better than Corel, Mandrake or Caldera. As this isn't a tech question, I have moved it to big General.

salasi · 06-02-2010, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linus72

...aLinux 14.0...

Quote:

We believe our applications exceed SuSE, Red Hat, Corel, Slackware, Caldera, Mandrake, etc ...

That is a particularly interesting claim: Mandrake has been Mandriva for years, and caldera, do they still exist in any way??? And SuSE? OpenSUSE or SLES/SLED? Probably written before the OpenSUSE was OpenSUSE.

I suspect that they wrote that years ago and haven't revised it since.

And if you think that 'exceed' means 'we have more applications than', a quick look at distrowatch shows that they don't have
abiword
amarok
ati-driver
bind
compiz
dhcp
emacs
evolution
gnucash
gnumeric
httpd
inkscape
mono
nautilus
NVidia
openoffice
pidgin
thunderbird
xfce

and that is a list that most distros would have a fair number of (even though there are some there that I personally would not want, it still doesn't suggest that do really have 'more' overall), so they would have some explaining to do.

Maybe by exceed they mean 'better than' (they seem suspiciously light on office stuff, missing OO, Gnumeric and Abiword, so maybe they mean 'better for people who don't like doing boring stuff with their computer), so that would take some explaining, too.

easuter · 06-02-2010, 11:34 AM

I know this is a rant and not a review per se, but it should give you an idea of how aLinux works (or at least used to a couple of years ago):
http://techiemoe.com/tech/alinux126.htm

Sucks.

jiml8 · 06-02-2010, 11:36 AM

Kernel 2.6.14 is - what - about 3 years old? And KDE 3.4.3 is WAAAAAYYYYY out of date. And isn't Xorg up to version 7.3?

This wonderful distro is a few years out of date.

Jeebizz · 06-02-2010, 11:42 AM

Caldera? I thought that distro was defunct years ago. I haven't heard of Caldera in years.

easuter · 06-02-2010, 11:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeebizz

Caldera? I thought that distro was defunct years ago. I haven't heard of Caldera in years.

Caldera is SCO. *shudder*

Jeebizz · 06-02-2010, 11:53 AM

Yea I know SCO was behind Caldera, but I thought even the distro went capoot in early 2000s. I know it's hayday was mostly in the late 1990s. I myself didn't hear anything more of Caldera since around ~2002.

linus72 · 06-02-2010, 02:02 PM

LOL
LOL
I thought many of you would get a giggle from that

I cant really say as I haven't tried it
and it seems these guys are the makers of the former Peanut Linux?

I also saw this

Quote:

* How to install any package:
* Use Synaptic/Aptitude or: RPM
* On packages with different extension(s):

Type 'mc' in a Xterminal within Enlightenment or KDE which starts the (Midnight Commander). Now go highlight the package you want to install - press the [F2] key, choose from the [F2] menu 'Install some_name.rpm', .rpm, .deb, tar.bz2, .tgz, etc, press [Enter].

too many pkg managers maybe
Looks like stuff would get confusing fast...

I'm not ranting on them
Just hope newbies dont start thinking that distro is "It"

easuter · 06-02-2010, 02:56 PM

Quote:

hoose from the [F2] menu 'Install some_name.rpm', .rpm, .deb, tar.bz2, .tgz, etc, press [Enter]

O_o
That's just brain dead.

cpplinux · 06-02-2010, 03:17 PM

Why is Ubuntu left out?

posixculprit · 06-02-2010, 03:39 PM

Because it is already a known fact that Red Hat > Ubuntu. Since aLinux > Red Hat there was no need to add Ubuntu to the list

Kenny_Strawn · 06-02-2010, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by posixculprit

Because it is already a known fact that Red Hat > Ubuntu.

Who told you that?

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

string Red_Hat;
string Ubuntu;

int main () {
    Red_Hat = "Proprietary:Expensive";
    Ubuntu = "Open Source:Free";

    return 0;
}

Maybe you should do a little research first. Red Hat is a distro you have to pay for, which should be considered a GPL violation. Of course, there's Fedora, but it doesn't have the tools Red Hat has, because Red Hat C0rp0r4t10n decided to cripple it because it's "free" and open source. At least Ubuntu is FOSS the whole way, except when you buy tech support. Once again, do some research.