try ALT Linux then?

try ALT Linux then?

Posted Aug 2, 2007 21:17 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981)
In reply to: Fedora is quite bloated by kjp
Parent article: Fedora's mid-life crisis

Well, you can look at PLD or ALT as a technocratic/meritocratic examples of RPM-based Linux distros. ALT is historically known for being very solid base, ApplianceWare NAS was built on it since ~2001.

I guess early introduction of more high-level PM tools than bare RPM helped both of them, along with more or less well-shaped goals (in ALT's case, reasonable security/usability mix among them).

There's Server release and a Desktop RC2 (20070801) for everyone's reviewing and using pleasure; there's also 4.0/branch on FTP including spt tool which is used to create those ISO images and OpenVZ template cache as well (BTW ALT's are by far the smallest of everything in that area of download.openvz.org).

The catch is the same as with nginx: it's a Russian-spoken project, mainly. But for those who decide to delve in such projects (like Ruby, a Japanese-spoken project ten years ago) tend to discover beautiful things.

And yes, there are no concerns on software patents in Russia so every driver and codec we could enable or include within copyright is there :)

PS: I hope that seeing Fedora on our tracks is good for them, even if it's 2--3 years behind in different aspects (like this one). It's always better to raise problems and solve them than to ignore them!

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