It has the speed of Gentoo with the ease of setup that most modern distros have....not all that crap about building your system like you have to do with gentoo...altho i am thinking of building gentoo on my spare time on another partition.

I have also heard it is one of the best for Linux gaming

gentoo or yoper is good for gaming?

anyway, if a current gentoo user wants to try out yoper, wed like to hear about hte speed differences.

How does Yoper compare to Arch, which is built for i686? I have tried Arch and was very impressed by its speed. Anyone used either and can compare the two?

dont know about comparign the two, but yoper is built for i686 and has some other optimizations as well such as prelinking. it will be faster, but i dont know if its by a significant margin. the install only took 3 minutes(15 with configuration) on my computer so its not a hurge burden to try it out.

The install and configuration are not a problem. I was just trying to get an idea of the comparable speed between the 2. Arch takes about 15 minutes to do base install and once up and running is very fast.

I will have to give Yoper a try and do a comparison.

Yoper is currently the fastest KDE based distro I have ever used.

Slackware is the best.

good. glad youre happy. go away.

Well, I gave Yoper a try and I admit that it was fast but that was about all i was impressed with... the distro just didn't seem coherent... it felt like I was using Suse for a few minutes and then Debian... I don't know... it just felt kind of piecemeal to me. I definately say Slackware is better (for me)based on the simple fact that it is a more mature distro at this point. Yoper has a great install and is, in fact, the only distro (I have used) that actually let me define my wide screen 1680x1050 display setting during the installation (using Sax2)... so, guess I'll take the yoper zealot's advice and "go away" b/c I'm happy with my Slackware install... Later.

To a newbie, they don't know Linspire from Red Hat from Slackware. They wouldn't care what it felt like, they would just like it in my opinion. My mom loved it while she was on it, the only one she liked better was SUSE.

I started getting into linux at the beginning of the year when I attended a linux convention in Michigan. http://penguicon.org/

Tired of M$ and Darth Gates, dreading Longhorn and it's DRM glory, time to make the leap.

Since then I have been playing distro-disco. Here is what I found so far (I have been trying to find that distro that works best for me. What I have been looking for is ease of installation, support (forum or otherwise), resources, & not bloatware like Windows. These are my impressions, no offense intended. Remember, I am noob to linux in general. One of the things that I have been looking at is finding a distro that I can convert people with & that from a base perspective be easy for them to use.

My System Specs:
Shuttle SN45G NForce2-400
AMD XP3200+ w/2x512mb Mushkin lvl 1 pc 3500
Sapphire ATI 9700 Pro 128mb
Samsung SP1614N 160gig
Sony CRX 320 DvD Combo Drive.

And for the record, It doesn't matter the distro, ATI drivers are a pain. Only thru the forums and helpful people was I ever able to get direct rendering working. This is a ATI driver issue, not a Linux problem.

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The Disto List
Suse 9.1 - Installed it, couldn't get sound or ethernet. Lost interest after a week, the challenge of frustration overwhelmed me.

Debian & Xandros - pretty much the same as Suse 9.1

MDK10 - One of the more popular distros, I found it to be buggy and bloated. I was trying to get away from bloatware. Between Installation woes and crashes, this distro didn't last long on my system. Other people love it, I found it painful.

Fedora Core 2 - Started in beta with FC2T3 and into final release. I like FC2. A little bloated, mostly because of the lack of options with installer. Great forum support. For the most part a very solid distro. A good newbie distro

Gentoo - Not for the noobie what-so-ever. Compiling from source installation took many hours. Installation can be very tricky, even with the well thought out guide from Gentoo. It would be so much better if you didn't have to write your own bootloader and fstab. The Portage emerge system is the bomb.

Slackware 10 - Installation was a snap and had good options. Package mgt takes a little getting used to. Great support and resources. Not a new-newbie installation. You still have to config x-windows to get a graphical interface.

Yoper v2 - I started playing with it over the weekend. A quick install that is very straight forward and simple to get going. Minimal installation. all things extra must be installed thru a package manager. I am enjoying playing with it and I like what I have found with it so far.

Now I just need to get those d@rn ATI drivers installed and working.

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any updates glas?

Well, It all went well untill Sax2 couldnt figure out my SIS 630 chipset for grafix. Infact I coulnt even quit to prompt, just kept repeating a config message, which says reboot if this message repeats!! ack. Learned XFree86 4.2 has dodgy support for SIS630.

But...

I installed it on a mish mash box, of Ati Rage 128, P3 1Gig, Gigabyte Mobo,
Installed fine, clicked on the graphix card no worries, some small edit to the monitor synch rates were req but no hassles.
Into KDE .... OMFG shit everything was sooooo fast, loading OpenOffice in like 8 secondsish, Konqorer instant fire up.

This is going to be one mental distro when the sort out compatibilites. Nice if offered a gnome / Kde ISO.


Recommended, the speed is

cool. i hope it will work on your good pc.

anyway, next version(soon, hopefully) will have a kde iso, a gnome iso and "core" iso that has almost nothing.