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Yoper 3.0 Beta (Blacksand) releasedThe team, together with lead-developer Tobias Gerschner, are proud to announce the start of the public beta-testing phase of Yoper GNU/Linux. After the last official 2.1 release (2004) and the last beta release 2.2 (2005), things became quiet at Yoper. Andreas Girardet, the founder and long-time developer of Yoper, resigned as Yoper lead developer in 2005 and handed over the duties to Tobias Gerschner. After rewriting all internal scripts, the inclusion of the Kanotix hardware-detection, a completely overhauled command line installer, a brand new GUI-installer (written from scratch) and several internal (and thus unannounced) alpha-releases, the time for public beta-testing has come. The ~ 630 MB ISO-file includes Kernel 2.6.15, Xorg 6.8.2, etcnet, KDE 3.5.0, Koffice, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and lots of other cutting-edge packages. Yoper remains true to its philosophy: the best from all distributions. Fast and easy to install, the fastest KDE Desktop out of the box, instantly ready for work, optimized for i686 and compatible processors . It features SMART as the package-manager and an optimized package-building procedure with a new buildserver accessible to the public. We, the Yoper team, would be pleased to receive strong community support during our new betaphase-testing. Download the latest iso image from:
Please review the known bugs before proceeding with installation. Developers can be contacted on:
Welcome to Yoper - Your Operating System.
Frequently Asked Questions
A. Yoper is a high performance computer-operating system. It has been carefully optimized for PC's with either i686 or higher processor types. The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch combining the original sources with the some of the best features from other Open Source Linux distributions. Yoper is not like general purpose distributions such as Red Hat or Mandriva or Novell, who are built for desktop and server-use alike. It is a specialized high performance Desktop OS for multimedia and office usage. Yoper is compact, residing on 1 CD-Rom and it is is one of the most standards-based environments in the Linux community. You will find hardware performance as good or better than that of any commercial OS.
A. Yoper OS (YOS) has been streamlined for functionality. You have the following options:
Each release meets general functional requirements and much more. Yoper gives you the ability to run thousands of available software packages and a stable environment on which new packages and applications can be developed, such as high performance Internet Servers or dedicated firewalls and routers. A. Linus Torvalds stated in a TV interview the reason he started Linux was "to make the OS market as varied as the car manufacturing market." We at Yoper did not want to create just another "car" but rather an exotic "dream machine". We wanted to create the ultimate experience, mixing the best features of say, Ferrari or Mercedes as an example. However, YOS is not a Ferrari or a Mercedes when it comes to price. Yoper laps the competition. We feel there is still plenty of room in the market for a peformance based, ease of use OS. Yoper fills the gap between the guru-only compile it yourself Gentoo or Linux From Scratch OS's, and Mandriva. While we applaud the effort and groundwork laid by other Linux distros used by businesses or home users, we've learned from experience, users still want the best possible performance-based desktop, without spending days setting up to use their new environment. For business customers we can adapt Yoper for your organization so that you get exactly what your business requires.
Q. What hardware does Yoper support?
A. The i686 version of Yoper desktop supports the following CPU's
Q. What are the best features of Linux that are part of Yoper?
A. Thanks to the contributions of other Linux developers and vendors to open source software we have been able to integrate these great features into our OS:
Q. How do you build your own Yoper packages? A. This question has two answers. For those of you wanting to install new software, we have a rapidly growing repository with high performance, retuned packages you may already be familiar with such as Firefox, Pan, Gimp and hundreds more. These are binaries compiled for i686, NOT i386 for "compatibility". Although Yoper comes with a lot of packages already compiled for your every day work, you might encounter that some application are still missing on our servers. In this case we encourage you to learn a bit more about Linux-systems and package creation. For people wanting to create their very own Yoper packages a compile guide can be found here. Self compiled rpm packages can be submitted to Yoper for server upload and general access for the community as long as they comply to these standard guidelines.
Yoper concentrates on:
and most of all...you! Our users! The Yoper Community continues providing free support via our forums and the Wiki. Yoper Team members and users dedicate and volunteer their free time helping with the smallest to toughest challenges! From the hundreds of posts and emails we have received it certainly seems that we have achieved what we set out to achieve: speed and beauty. Already the first commercial conversions from major competing legacy operating systems to Yoper are being undertaken in New Zealand. Finally we would like to thank you for downloading and trying Yoper and we are glad to see our core desktop OS so successfully accepted by a wide range of users. If you have any enhancement requests for Yoper, please let us know what you would like to see included in Yoper. Please post your requests here. Q. I do have problems with Yoper. Where can I find help? A.In case that you encounter problems with Yoper regarding hardware or software, you can find a lot of help online. Either check the Troubleshooting section of the Yoperwiki or check our Forums. If you do not find an answer to your questions there, feel free to post your question on the boards. Our team members and other Linux users will be glad to help you, solving the problems you might encounter.
Known issues:
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