From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 10:34:15 +0300 From: Michael Shigorin To: community-en@altlinux.org Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Personal review of ALT Linux Junior Message-ID: <20030407073415.GV2302@osdn.org.ua> Mail-Followup-To: community-en@altlinux.org References: <200304061208.47166.djbouley@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304061208.47166.djbouley@shaw.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: community-en-admin@altlinux.org Errors-To: community-en-admin@altlinux.org X-BeenThere: community-en@altlinux.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: community-en@altlinux.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Post: On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 12:08:46PM -0600, djbouley wrote: > http://www.virtualsky.net/altlinuxreview.htm Umm... thanks, but it's a common misconception that ALT Linux is being based on Mandrake: since Master 2.0 it isn't so. The installer and (to large extent) configuration software is still the heavily patched versions of older Mdk ones (8.x I'd believe), but the whole distribution isn't _based_ on (and isn't "parallel" to) some particular Linux-Mandrake release. So telling "ALJ2.2 is somewhat based on Mdk9.0" is incorrect. > Mandrake -and Red Hat for that matter- use the RPM software > package handler Umm... sounds like RH borrowed from Mdk and not otherwise :) > Junior utilizes the Synaptic front end application; a huge [...] > As an extra bonus, Junior also has the capability > of installing softare using the Debian based apt-get Ugh :) Synaptic is exactly an APT frontend :) > To update and upgrade the system files, I simply had to click > on four icon buttons in sequence... Update List - Upgrade All - > Dist. Upgrade- Proceed. (in fact, "upgrade" before "dist-upgrade" would do all the "usual" job -- dist-upgrade is really needed only with major changes like going for another major release or tracking the unstable tree, security updates are simpler and not "dist"-wide) > If the software you want is not in the Synaptic list, you can > always go to a terminal window and use Apt-Get. Did you really find something via APT that wasn't accessible with Synaptic? It really shouldn't be so since APT is being used both ways 8-O > For those of you who prefer non-Windows look-alikes, Junior > also gracefully supports Window Maker 0.80.2. Thanks, there was a hot battle over whether to "bloat" distro with WM :-) but WindowMaker team won -- still the CD had to grow to 700Mb. BTW, seems there were no problems with that on older CD-R drive? > XRipper Grip? :) --- Overall: thanks David, I'm heading to LWN and friends with the link in my hands :-) -- ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/