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About:
YOS is a compact, personalized, and optimized OS
with support for apt-rpm and tgz packages, with
1200 packages carefully selected and compiled for
speed and stability. It has an automatic hardware
detection system which should detect most modern
hardware.
Release focus: Major feature enhancements
Changes:
This prerelease featured a 2.6.10 cko patched kernel, 2.6 kernel headers, NPTL, SELinux, GNOME 2.8, KDE 3.3.2, and resizing of NTFS based partitions during installation. Hardware based translucency is now supported for NVIDIA-based systems.
Author:
yOPeR [contact developer]
Homepage:
http://www.yoper.com
Trove categories:
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Dependencies:
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» Rating:
7.04/10.00
(Rank 392)
» Vitality: 0.01% (Rank 5691)
» Popularity: 5.83% (Rank 550)
 
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Record hits: 57,276
URL hits: 30,460
Subscribers: 146
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2.2.0-4
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Major feature enhancements |
25-Jan-2005 11:41 |
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2.9.2
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Major feature enhancements |
16-Aug-2004 07:37 |
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2.9.1
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Initial freshmeat announcement |
23-Jul-2004 07:18 |
Comments
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Excellent Distro straight of the Box (I mean ISO)!
by WP4MVC - Nov 20th 2004 15:22:53
Have been running YOPER for three days now and have
not had an incident with my old Laptop. Is an old IBM
600E and it is running like a champ. It even detected my
old D-Link PCMCIA DWL-650. I had to fumble with other
distros to get it right and be able to connect. Thanks for
this O/S. It is great!!!!!!
....73
de WP4MVC
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Yoper
by James - Nov 19th 2004 00:58:50
I've been using Yoper now for a few months, on an old P3 laptop (650) and
have been very impressed with the performance on this slow machine.
I've been so impressed that I've just donated money to the yoper project
(even though I too am against paying for an OS, donation is good ^^ ).
I just want to ask, is Yoper still alive? The Yoper website has been
talking about new servers being installed, but its been a week since they
were supposed to be back up. Are you still there Yoper? Please don't leave
me....
--
--James
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Wow!
by Kelvin McCorvin - Sep 17th 2004 11:01:27
I'm impressed. I've been looking for this kind of dist for a long time.
Small, lightweight, and extremely fast. While rough around the edges, this
dist has a massive amount of potential.
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Why Pay
by yOPeR - Mar 11th 2003 19:51:19
Please be fair! Please read our forum and especially the
following posts and you might change your mind:
Misconceptions
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PAY
by Mark - Mar 11th 2003 19:43:40
You have to pay these people $100 for their release version. Screw
that. I'm gonna get a free/cheap disrto that can do the same things.
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Re: PAY
by Avi Y - Mar 11th 2003 23:46:13
go ahead, do that, there are many distros, and
it's our right to choose !!
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avi Y
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Re: PAY
by Gyula Zsigri - Mar 12th 2003 11:02:53
> You have to pay these people $100 for
> their release version. Screw that. I'm
> gonna get a free/cheap disrto that can
> do the same things.
Go for Yoper RC4: it's the
fastest free workstation running KDE.
--
Gyula Zsigri
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Re: PAY
by Vishruth - Mar 13th 2003 01:32:59
>
> % You have to pay these people $100 for
>
> % their release version. Screw that.
> I'm
> % gonna get a free/cheap disrto that can
>
> % do the same things.
>
>
> Go for Yoper RC4: it's the
> fastest free workstation running KDE.
I am using Yoper's RC 4 now. And it is fast. But I can't purchase the 1.0
version either. It's too expensive for my standards. I don't think home
users (such as myself) would want to pay so much. I'd rather have Red Hat
or something else which may not be as fast, but is still very good and free
(in the true spirit of Linux)!
--
- Vishruth.
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Re: PAY
by Martin Forest - Mar 27th 2003 13:06:03
I guess most of the time, you get what you pay for.
Free distributions tend to be slow with updates and fixes. YOS is always
keeping the software up to date and highly optimised. Look at RedHat. RH is
never keeping their old versions up to date. Sure, they may implement a
security fix but are never updating the software. You have to upgrade every
time they have a new release. YOS is one of the best things that have
happened to Linux in a long time. And building such an advanced distro must
have taken a couple of years man time. Not all Linux projects have large
financial backing.
Well done YOS!!!
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Re: PAY
by Mark - Jun 25th 2003 16:39:04
> I guess most of the time, you get what
> you pay for.
> Free distributions tend to be slow with
> updates and fixes. YOS is always keeping
> the software up to date and highly
> optimised. Look at RedHat. RH is never
> keeping their old versions up to date.
> Sure, they may implement a security fix
> but are never updating the software. You
> have to upgrade every time they have a
> new release. YOS is one of the best
> things that have happened to Linux in a
> long time. And building such an advanced
> distro must have taken a couple of years
> man time. Not all Linux projects have
> large financial backing.
> Well done YOS!!!
>
Yoper is a $100 repackaging of software that you can
get for free. No I will not pay $100 for a Linux
distribution. I would rather use debian. Apparently the
yoper team (or at least the marketing) keeps tabs on
this site. SCO going bankrupt and stopping their lawsuit
would be the best thing that has ever happened to
Linux. Unfortunately yoper is not.
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Yoper is free!!!
by Ariszló - Jul 15th 2003 07:28:25
> Yoper is a $100 repackaging of software that you can get
for free.
Now you can download Yoper for free or buy the two cd's
for US$ 35 + shipping.
--
Ariszló
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by Vanity - Jul 21st 2003 17:27:08
>
>
> Now you can download Yoper for free or
> buy the two cd's
> for US$ 35 + shipping.
>
No thanks. I will not spend even a penny on this jackass.
"This is a business and not a charity organization for brainless and
gutless chickens that fill a forum up with junk. Stay with your Linux and
leave us alone. Business users need us, since they are sick of YOU. We do
not need brainless nerds with too much time on their hand." - Yoper
admin
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by yOPeR - Aug 10th 2003 07:50:00
Make your own mind up instead of believing what someone
writes on here and attributes to me.
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by Vanity - Aug 10th 2003 14:04:36
From: yoper
Site Admin
"We compiled, tested, packaged, compiled, tested, packaged, compiled,
tested, packaged. Until one of you actually tries it how can you even start
talking. It is a complete new Linux not based on anything else, targetting
the i686 business market. You nerds arenot our business. You nerds are no
ones business and this is the reason why as a community we fail to fight M$
properly. After years of dev you could have actually given it an objective
go instead of slagging it off and blindly comparing it to slackware only
because it was posted on /. in the same article as slackware. Ignorance is
bliss. Stay in your matrix and stay blind. This is a business and not a
charity organization for brainless and gutless chickens that
fill a forum up with junk.
Stay with your Linux and leave us alone. Business users need us,
since they are sick of YOU. We do not need brainless nerds with too much
time on their hand. We need businesses who want to save time and money
and save their behind from having to hire you."
This is a copy of full letter that Yoper wrote to Slashdotters on March
this year.
Yoper(or Andrea), it's hard to take back the things you
already said.
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by yOPeR - Aug 10th 2003 14:25:47
I am saying people should make their own mind up, instead of
taking posts at face value.
The comments followed dozens of very very bad flames on
the forum, which attacked me personally. After having worked
for 4 weeks in a row to release Yoper with less than 2-3
hours sleep per night if any I certainly did not think straight.
And
who wants to read F and S words on their own website? I
certainly don't.
The comment was a knee jerk reaction to blatantly out of line
flames from people who did not even try Yoper or read the
website. I agree that the comment was also out of line.
Taking it out of context is not fair, since it was only targeting
the people who flamed me and not anyone else.
Thanks for reminding me of that post. Maybe I should dig
out all the flames from that day I received prior to making
that post and post them here. But what is the point of that?
I made 1 comment compared to dozens of comments. What
is the crime in defending the work I did for over a year with
passion and without any reward apart from knowing that I
run my own distro? And who is the judge anyway. Only
human I am after all.
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by Vanity - Aug 12th 2003 16:27:42
You started to insult the Slashdot readers first. You have no idea that 90%
of the Slashdot readers they support Open Source Software like Linux?
THINK! Have you ever seen them "attacked" ANY of the Linux distro creators?
NO! Anyways, I'll stop this useless conversation, spend time on you is a
waste. You may delete this post like you always do. Bye.
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by yOPeR - Aug 13th 2003 04:15:56
Vanity,
Personally I don't think this conversation is fruitless since it
shows just how much everyone of us needs to step back and
think of how and what we want people to think about us. I
certainly wish I would not have reacted as I did after weeks of
nearly no sleep, but it happened and I cannot do much about
it now.
Thanks for bringing this post of mine to our attention and
thanks for allowing me to explain and make sure that readers
understand that the post was written after dozens of flames
from people who did not care of how much time and effort I
put into Yoper.
Why would I delete this conversation? It is clear evidence of
rationality and will bring the reader to understand how special
Your Operating System is and how much heart and passion
has gone into it.
Thanks to all readers and thanks to 100000+ people who
decided to download Yoper and give the One Man distro a go
since that day on which www.yoper.com got slashdotted.
Thanks for making us #1 on www.distrowatch.com at least
for 3 months and a very special thanks to all those who use
Yoper right
now and know of its clear advantages. Yoper might not be
working for you yet, but God willing I will make sure it will
continue to grow and one day it might be right for you.
Yoper is Your Operating System, since everyone of you has
contributed in one way or form to create Open Source magic
and create freedom of choice within the Operating System
market.
Yoper V1.1 is downloadable right now totally free, even
though you can buy CD's from me or from any one of the
hundreds of CD resellers online who sell Yoper right now.
Thanks for your support and for understanding.
All the best from New Zealand.
Your Yoper admin
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by Vanity - Aug 16th 2003 02:34:07
Reading your replies' like readling advertisement. This discussion was dead
months ago already. I don't know why did I bring it up, maybe I'm just one
of those brainless nerds with too much time on my hands. But don't worry
noone's really care about you now. However...
I will say good luck to you, and thank you for providing us alternatives
on choices of Linux distro.
Lastly, I would like to recommand Gentoo to everyone.
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Re: Yoper is free!!!
by yOPeR - Aug 19th 2003 22:30:34
Vanity
Thanks for wishing me good luck and good luck to you too. If I would not
have done Yoper, I certainly would use Gentoo myself, since it is a
fantastic distro. I have integrated portage into Yoper, Yoper is also an
excellent choice for those who want to try Gentoo without days of compiling
a desktop.
Why do you call yourself brainless? I certainly did not and don't think
you are.
I am the first that wants the comments to be part of the past as much as
the highly aggressive comments that preceeded my comment are part of the
past, even though I have a copy of the mysql database of that day and due
to our conversation I did read the posts that preceeded mine again. My
comment was clearly an overreaction on abusive flames of people. I merely
threw a little stone against people throwing loads of large rocks.
In light of your generous offer of dropping any further mentioning of my
comment I wish you happy Linuxing and may God bless you and your family.
Thanks
Yoper Admin
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Yoper is apparently gonna cause World War III
by Mixelplix - Nov 6th 2004 18:23:14
Geez...
I came here to have a look at Yoper, after reading about it in Linux
Magazine (which included 2.1 for free, and thanks for that).
I was hoping to find out a little more about the distro before I installed
it, and I came accross the most heated debate (or flame fest) that i have
seen in months. After reading several back and forth posts, I thought I
would weigh in with some common sense.
If someone goes to the trouble of creating a customized linux distro, and
spends a great deal of time and effort in doing this, then why is it so
inconceivable to think they might be paid for it?
I have not yet installed Yoper, so I cannot comment on it's performance or
usability, but it seems to me that this argument has nothing to do with
that. It seems like an attack on the author because he has the audacity to
charge a fee for it. That seems pretty stupid to me.
If you dont want to pay for the distro, then dont. There are plenty of
other distro's out there which are sold at a much higher cost, as well as
hundreds which are free of charge. Why not just slam them all? Everyone who
expects some compensation for their effort is a bloody capitalist pig, and
anyone who gives their distro away for free is an anti-capitalist moron.
Come on guys.. if you want to try it, then try it.. If you like it enough
to pay for it, then send the guys who spent countless hours packaging it a
few bucks.. I am quite sure they earned it, and if you dont like it.. or
dont want to pay for it, then go download gentoo or fedora instead.
This idea that everyone should do everything for free is novel in concept,
but it takes money to live in modern society. I would love nothing more
than to give 100% of myself to helping those less fortunate, but if I dont
make some money along the way, I will quickly become one of those less
fortunate people I am trying to help.
In closing, can't we all just get along? I know we all hate Microsoft, but
is it because they flood the market with garbage and wont release the code
so we can fix all of their mistakes? Or is it because they are a business
which charges a fee for their operating system? I wager if we think about
this, the latter is not the root of the problem.
Now I am going to install Yoper myself and give it a spin.. and if I like
it, and decide to use it, then I will gladly pay the author for his work.
If I dont decide to use it myself, I wont presume that everyone else shares
my opinion, and I will suggest that everyone else try it as well.
To the author - Thanks for working to build a better linux, rather than
using your skills to build more worthless (and overpriced) crap for
Windows.
We may not all choose the same distro, but we should all stand together as
members of the linux community. If you really have to bash someone every
day, then point your anger at Microsoft, and stop attacking your own
family.
Thats just the way I see it anyway..
Mixelplix
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Re: Yoper is apparently gonna cause World War III
by grv575 - Nov 28th 2004 19:13:45
> Geez...
>
> I came here to have a look at Yoper,
> after reading about it in Linux Magazine
> (which included 2.1 for free, and thanks
> for that).
>
> I was hoping to find out a little more
> about the distro before I installed it,
> and I came accross the most heated
> debate (or flame fest) that i have seen
> in months. After reading several back
> and forth posts, I thought I would weigh
> in with some common sense.
>
> If someone goes to the trouble of
> creating a customized linux distro, and
> spends a great deal of time and effort
> in doing this, then why is it so
> inconceivable to think they might be
> paid for it?
>
> I have not yet installed Yoper, so I
> cannot comment on it's performance or
> usability, but it seems to me that this
> argument has nothing to do with that. It
> seems like an attack on the author
> because he has the audacity to charge a
> fee for it. That seems pretty stupid to
> me.
>
> If you dont want to pay for the distro,
> then dont. There are plenty of other
> distro's out there which are sold at a
> much higher cost, as well as hundreds
> which are free of charge. Why not just
> slam them all? Everyone who expects some
> compensation for their effort is a
> bloody capitalist pig, and anyone who
> gives their distro away for free is an
> anti-capitalist moron.
>
> Come on guys.. if you want to try it,
> then try it.. If you like it enough to
> pay for it, then send the guys who spent
> countless hours packaging it a few
> bucks.. I am quite sure they earned it,
> and if you dont like it.. or dont want
> to pay for it, then go download gentoo
> or fedora instead.
>
> This idea that everyone should do
> everything for free is novel in concept,
> but it takes money to live in modern
> society. I would love nothing more than
> to give 100% of myself to helping those
> less fortunate, but if I dont make some
> money along the way, I will quickly
> become one of those less fortunate
> people I am trying to help.
>
> In closing, can't we all just get along?
> I know we all hate Microsoft, but is it
> because they flood the market with
> garbage and wont release the code so we
> can fix all of their mistakes? Or is it
> because they are a business which
> charges a fee for their operating
> system? I wager if we think about this,
> the latter is not the root of the
> problem.
>
> Now I am going to install Yoper myself
> and give it a spin.. and if I like it,
> and decide to use it, then I will gladly
> pay the author for his work. If I dont
> decide to use it myself, I wont presume
> that everyone else shares my opinion,
> and I will suggest that everyone else
> try it as well.
>
> To the author - Thanks for working to
> build a better linux, rather than using
> your skills to build more worthless (and
> overpriced) crap for Windows.
>
> We may not all choose the same distro,
> but we should all stand together as
> members of the linux community. If you
> really have to bash someone every day,
> then point your anger at Microsoft, and
> stop attacking your own family.
>
> Thats just the way I see it anyway..
>
> Mixelplix
Just installed yoper and am really impressed. 15 minutes
total install time, and it runs really fast. I have to say I
like it better than gentoo, suse, and debian - great
autodetection and very little configuration/maintenance. I
just hope that the distro is still active (and there's still a
free version available) over the next couple of years.
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