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Distro Watch Review
« Thread Started on Feb 27, 2012, 9:29am »

A Review of SalineOS 1.6 can be found here:
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120227#feature

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #1 on Feb 27, 2012, 10:41am »

I have never experienced the keyboard-layout-changing-to-French "bug." Anyone else?

Great review, overall.

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #2 on Feb 27, 2012, 11:58am »

It is a nice review.
I didn't know Synaptic was getting old.

Works fine.

Haven't installed the 1.6 lately, but when I did,
whether I set it English or Spanish it always stayed as selected.
Wonder what happened to it? Or what he did?

I still think Anthony found the sweet spot: Speed and Stability.
I can get most anything else I really need or want.

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #3 on Feb 27, 2012, 12:10pm »

I'm not sure why anyone would want to change the autoupdate to a gui. What could be easier than 1 click, then answer yes or no? I think its perfect!

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #4 on Feb 27, 2012, 12:14pm »

It's simple, but any command line stuff is intimidating to many people.

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #5 on Feb 27, 2012, 12:25pm »

From comment #8 following the review:

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You never seem to mention if these packages are there or not

bluez
mobile-broadband-provider-info
networkmanager
modemmanager
networkmanager-openvpn
networkmanager-vpnc
usb-mode switch
wicd
uget
parcelite

please in future do Not everyone has hardline or wifi

I don't know anything about that stuff, but I found all of those except networkmanager-openvpn, networkmanager-vpnc, and parcelite available via Synaptic (except I found usb-modeswitch, not "usb-mode switch").

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #6 on Feb 27, 2012, 4:19pm »

I sent a link to Nixie and the guy at This Week in Linux.............we'll see. They do far better reviews than whasshisface at distrowatch. There's a Brit called Sneaky that does real good reviews if you can understand him.....lOL He praised 1.5.

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #7 on Feb 27, 2012, 4:29pm »

That review is fairly good, but now its my turn for a critique

First the upgrade script uses aptitude and not apt-get, and if a package needs configuring then it does in fact have a GUI now in the way of deb conf gtk. All said though I have plans to move to the packagekit gtk update utility for 2.0. The bug in localizesys I think is a user error or a bug in setupcon, I just read through the localizesys code and it all looks well. I will keep an eye out for it while I am doing testing on localizesys for 2.0 (Will be re-writing it into yad here shortly).

Synaptic is getting old, but it has more advanced features that the software-center lacks. It seems reviewers don't use advanced features >.> Thankfully, the packagekit gtk application strikes a very good balance between the two, and will be moved to just as soon as its feasible (2.0 development builds).

If he is impressed with the 1.6 installer, he is going to be blown away with 2.0. In fact about 3 AM this morning the new installer completed its first test install (Used 1.6 to do the test as Wheezy live is in disarray atm). I could not be happier with how it all looks and how it works in practice. Though not all features are fully implemented yet, you can grab the installer from git and check it out, you will just need to install yad on 1.6.

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #8 on Feb 28, 2012, 2:16pm »

Feb 27, 2012, 4:19pm, murdock wrote:

I love sneeky's reviews. Here is his channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/sneekylinux

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Re: Distro Watch Review
« Reply #9 on Nov 11, 2012, 11:27am »

Sneeky just did another review of SalineOS on his new video series of distros for old hardware:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5NDQGmTrwk

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