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[Lanzamiento distribucion] aLinux 14.0 « Gustavo Pimentel's GNU/Linux blog — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:12:56 +0000

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By: Doru Barbu

Doru Barbu — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:39:52 +0000

Thanks for the appreciation, and the quick history lesson! Come to think of it, I never really tried VectorLinux either… I did do a fast and messy install of it during my stay at Softpedia, just to snap a few screenshots. I will certainly put it on my list of distributions to visit.

By: clintcan

clintcan — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:55:39 +0000

Hi Doru,

Just read your blog, it’s great! Anyways, just to answer your question regarding contradictions in aLinux. It was always known to be in contradiction with other distributions in it’s heyday (in fact, it’s this “quirkiness” in it’s design that once caused Microsoft to take notice of it and call a C&D order one time – the letter was posted in the site by the aLinux creator. Jay has since changed that wallpaper design to one less “controversial”). The text installer in aLinux from what I heard from Jay was created by the creator of VectorLinux (in fact, Vector and Peanut were always friendly rivals in the old times, and both creators of the distributions are Canadians, and oftentimes the packages then were almost like a mirror of each other in the past – Vector was based more on slackware, if I remembered correctly).

By: Open Technology Now

Open Technology Now — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:57:27 +0000

To me, the current aLinux bring mixed feelings. While it is highly optimised, with great RAM usage and a whole lot of applications packaged in, there are a lot of contradictions about it. The whole Windows Vista look-alike doesn't go well with a Linux distribution that has a tradition of more than 10 years. I'll stop ranting now, you can read my opinions about aLinux 12.9 on the Open Technology Now blog. Cheers!

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:03:28 +0000

It looks really gorgeous and hard to believe it uses KDE 3.5.x, really a awesome release I will try it soon and publish my experiences on my website http://www.linux2u.co.cc , one thing I want say about this “OLD is GOLD”

By: clintcan

clintcan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:28:47 +0000

Hi there guys! Yeah, I do remember running Gnome 1.x as well on Peanut (that’s what I used as a screenshot on the instruction manual of the company I used to work for, along with winamp running on WINE). I found it pretty exciting because it was practically the first distro I found easy to use (and the installer was ahead of it’s time). It also ran Star Office (back when Sun didn’t acquire the German company who used to make it). Incidentally I also made a short instruction module on how to use OpenOffice 1.x as well (I was really into Open Source back then). Those were the times I remember fondly.

By: Boris

Boris — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:01:29 +0000

Peanut 8.1 was my favorite. With KDE 1 and decent number of internet tools. Installation on 150 MB loop drive and fast compared to win95 win98 back in days. Ever there was Java plugin

By: hotdiggettydog

hotdiggettydog — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:25:15 +0000

Great review.
I remember Peanut well. It was ahead of its time in the day.
I used one or two of the early alinux releases as well and found them enjoyable.
It is too bad development, kind of, came to a halt. It could have been great.
I remember Jay as being very helpful and accommodating to his community of Peanut/alinux users. Good luck Jay with future endeavors.

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Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:45:46 +0000

[...] aLinux 12.9 – A Blast From the Past How did I find aLinux 12.9? It surprisingly worked real well, for a hobbyist distribution. Packages were as usual, a hybrid of pretty old stuff and new libraries. GCC is a bit outdated; WINE is included in the install as well (it’s old though). [...]