Installation

The installation process seemed very straight forward (or so it seemed). The first thing you do is create your partitions. They have an excellent partitioning utility that I found very intuitive. The big issue I have is that you MUST create at least 3 partitions; home partition, root partition, and swap partition. I installed multiple times without a home partition and each time it did not boot up. If you create at least 3 partitions you should have no problem.

The installation then goes through some dialogs to configure your sound using alsa. This found my sound card and correctly configured my sound.

Next you must configure your networking. Everything appeared to work ok and I was prompted to add a user and create the root password.

One thing I did not like is the fact that you have no option to choose what packages get installed. There are many times on my servers when I do not want X installed at all. This is not an option with the yoper installation. I hope they change this is future releases

Initial Boot up

During the first boot after installation sax2 runs to configure X. The first boot this locked up and I was forced to reboot the machine. When the reboot came up sax2 ran again and configured X properly. The default X server is KDE

Impressions

A good thing about Yoper is it does not start a lot of unneeded services by default. The bad thing was their chkconfig support sucks, you can not add sshd in the chkconfig list. I had to manually create a link from /etc/rc3.d and /etc/rc5.d.

Next my network did not come up properly; their /etc/rc.d/init.d/network script did not work properly. I had to manually bring my interface up using ifup eth0. Now I had another problem. Even though I told the setup my gateway address and the gateway was in the ifcfg-eth0 script no default gateway was added to the route table. After manually adding my default gateway to the route table I finally had internet access.

I ran the apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. The upgrade process locked during the update of sane-backend. I had to reboot my machine. When I started the apt-get process again (after deleting the lock file) everything finished successfully

After everything was updated I started checking out the X programs and see if the performance was any better than mandrake or fedora. In fact, I felt the performance was much better. Programs started up very quickly and seem to run nicely. This is an accomplishment on a 350 MHZ machine with 96 MB of ram.

Conclusion

Overall I think this distribution has potential but I don’t think it is ready for widespread use right now. This seems like a distribution that was rushed out when in fact, it needs much more testing and refinement.

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