Wolvix donation a good choice
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| caitlyn Mar 02, 2009 11:59 AM EDT |
Wolvix is another Slackware derivative distro that has really impressed me. Version 1.0.5 was OK but when they broke away from Slax and started doing their own thing they came up with a distro, beginning with version 1.1.0, that is pretty special. They manage to cram a whole lot of functionality into relatively small isos and their configuration tools are nicely done. Performance is excellent, probably about as good as anything I've seen, even on older, slower hardware. Wolvix has good ideas and good execution of those ideas but always seems to lack resources. Ladlislav's decision to donate to Wolvix in advance of their upcoming 2.0 release seems like a good choice to me. He's picked a promising distro than really could use a little help. They've added developers, notably by swallowing Ultima Linux. A little money certainly will help as well. I probably should download a development build of 2.0 already :) |
| caitlyn Mar 02, 2009 12:01 PM EDT |
Sorry for the typo. That's donation, not doination. Grrr... No way for an ordinary user to change a topic heading, either. |
| tuxchick Mar 02, 2009 12:14 PM EDT |
I thought "doination" was a clever remix of coin and donation :) |
| hkwint Mar 02, 2009 12:27 PM EDT |
Ah, a new word is invented. Doinate, all of yoin! Where I live an i after an o is used to prolong the o, meaning doination is the same as dooohnation, meaning no actual difference. Anyway, since LXer is not Microsoft, you are ought to do your work right the first time, meaning SP2 for your topic heading ain't an option. |
| bigg Mar 02, 2009 12:42 PM EDT |
Isn't doinate something you'd hear in New York? |
| jezuch Mar 02, 2009 4:30 PM EDT |
Quoting:doination In my language "doi?" means "to milk". Kind of in reverse, I think. Or not, depending on at which end of this "doination" are you :) |
| jezuch Mar 02, 2009 4:31 PM EDT |
Quoting:doi? D'oh. LXer still doesn't like non-ASCII chars?... I meant this one little critter instead of '?': [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ć]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ć[/url] |
| Scott_Ruecker Mar 02, 2009 4:48 PM EDT |
Got the title fixed for you Caitlyn. |
| caitlyn Mar 02, 2009 5:53 PM EDT |
Thanks, Scott. I should have known some people would never let me live it down :) I wonder how many of those people have never made a typo. ;D Anyway, my point was to highlight Wolvix and their upcoming release. If folks want to see how Wolvix 2.0.0 is coming along they can download Build 39. It's alpha code and has bugs so it isn't ready for prime time yet but it does give an idea where the distro is going: http://wolvix.oithona.com/downloads/wolvix-2.0.0-build39.iso |
| tuxchick Mar 02, 2009 6:04 PM EDT |
Never! Never! I never make tyops! Ha. Just try to stay on topic. I dare you. |
| gus3 Mar 02, 2009 8:18 PM EDT |
We are the masters (and mistresses) of derailment. Do you really think a helium leak is what shut down the LHC? We can derail anything, from photons to... Oh, wait, I wasn't supposed to tell that, was I? Crap. |
| Scott_Ruecker Mar 02, 2009 8:26 PM EDT |
Typos, the bigger the hard time they give you the more you know they like you..maybe..lol! |
| vainrveenr Mar 02, 2009 9:45 PM EDT |
Quoting:Wolvix has good ideas and good execution of those ideas but always seems to lack resources. Ladlislav's decision to donate to Wolvix in advance of their upcoming 2.0 release seems like a good choice to me. He's picked a promising distro than really could use a little help. They've added developers, notably by swallowing Ultima Linux. A little money certainly will help as well.Also, there are New versions of VectorLinux, Foresight and SimplyMEPIS, as the LXer post from last week of the same name elucidates at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/116349/ Supporting NimbleX's Romanian developer Bogdan Radulescu would ALSO not be the worst action to take. - 'Portrait: NimbleX creator Bogdan Radulescu', http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/103316/ - 'NimbleX 2008 is speedy but flawed', http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/107239/ |
| caitlyn Mar 03, 2009 3:51 AM EDT |
NimbleX is also not GPL compliant. Where's the source code? |
| Steven_Rosenber Mar 03, 2009 12:27 PM EDT |
I've spent quite a bit of time running Wolvix, and as I've mentioned also many times, it has an excellent mix of applications that seems to have just about everything I want in a distribution. It's my favorite Slackware offshoot. And the installer and configuration utility are among the best I've ever seen (and I've seen far too many). Thanks to Ladislav for making the donation at a time when I know the distro (and its developer, Wolven) needs it. |
| hkwint Mar 03, 2009 1:25 PM EDT |
Can anyone tell something about package management in Wolvix? Where can I compare it to? |
| caitlyn Mar 03, 2009 4:18 PM EDT |
hkwint: Wolvix uses Slackware apt (slapt-get and gslapt). I believe, much like Vector Linux, they are adding slapt-notifier in v. 2.0. Unlike Vector Linux or Zenwalk they use Slackware standard .tgz packages rather Tukaani lzma compressed packages with dependency checking (slack-required file) added. Wolvix has it's own repository but also pulls from the official Slackware repo for the version it's based on. Otherwise it's pretty much the same as what Vector Linux does, without the nightmare of adding gsb, the big mistake in Vector Linux 6.0. |
| Steven_Rosenber Mar 03, 2009 11:43 PM EDT |
slapt-get and Gslapt are pretty good. I don't "trust" them as much as I do apt, Aptitude and Synaptic, but for me they are must-haves when running Slackware or anything derived from it. |
| caitlyn Mar 04, 2009 9:48 AM EDT |
@Steven: What is the reason for your distrust? It seems to me that they have finally matured to the point of working as well as anything else. slapt-notifier added the one last missing piece to the puzzle. |
| Steven_Rosenber Mar 04, 2009 1:09 PM EDT |
Caitlyn, I'll have to admit that it is lack of knowledge on my part. I haven't run Slackware or Wolvix for about a year now, and while slapt-get/Gslapt seem to work fine, any uneasiness I had was more due to my comfort and familiarity with apt and Aptitude in Debian/Ubuntu than it was with anything going on in Slackware. The reason there are so many great Slackware-derived projects — Wolvix, Vector and ZenWalk among them — is that Slackware is such a great base and an easy way to have a fast, stable system out of the box. And my preference for Xfce over KDE makes all three of those offshoots very attractive alternatives. I especially appreciate the strong repositories in Vector, Wolvix and Zenwalk, just as I appreciate how great Patrick and the Slackware security team are at maintaining so many releases. For me, slapt-get/Gslapt makes Slackware that much more usable in production. I've tried to keep a Slackware box patched with update-pkg, and it does tend to get away from me without slapt-get. So it's really nothing more than a lack of knowledge on my part of the guts of slapt-get. The other thing that I still can't quite reconcile in my mind is the philosophy on kernel updates in Slackware vs. Debian. Both Debian and Ubuntu seem to push patched kernels out fairly regularly. Slackware seems to do it only rarely. And in Wolvix, I recall Gslapt being configured by default NOT to check for new kernels. I honestly don't know which practice is more secure. As I said, I have quite a bit of trust in the Slackware security team, but I'd love for someone to really spell it out for me. |
| number6x Mar 04, 2009 2:39 PM EDT |
Wolvix uses Gslapt as a gui front end to slapt-get.
The number of packages available with all the dependencies resolved is fewer than in standard Slackware, but you can use all of the standard slackware tgz files as well. getting help in the Wolvix forums is easy. Slackware forums are fantastic. Wolvix is much closer to slackware than Ubuntu is to debian. Vector Linux 6.0 also has vpackager. a 'ports' like installer that builds from code: http://code.google.com/p/vpackager/wiki/Introduction |
| jdixon Mar 04, 2009 3:12 PM EDT |
> The other thing that I still can't quite reconcile in my mind is the philosophy on kernel updates in Slackware vs. Debian. A given version of Slackware gets security updates, but not version upgrades. So unless there's a security patch required for the kernel, you won't get a kernel update. If you want a newer kernel, you can always download the latest and compile it yourself. Slackware makes that comparatively easy to do. |
| gus3 Mar 04, 2009 10:42 PM EDT |
...in large part because Patrick Volkerding uses the official Linux kernel sources, not patched versions that work only within one distro. |
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