10 Questions with Auke Kok [LWN.net]

Here is an interview with Lunar Linux developer Auke Kok. "8. Who can benefit from using lunar? Lunar is for everyone. Though it may be extremely hard for the beginner to administer, it provides you with all the possible features you could want from a linux distro."

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10 Questions with Auke Kok

Posted Jul 8, 2003 12:21 UTC (Tue) by danscox (subscriber, #4125) [Link] (1 responses)

At the risk of revealing my English/US language single-mindedness, how does one pronouce "Auke Kok"?

pronunciation

Posted Jul 16, 2003 21:40 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

At the risk of revealing my English/US language single-mindedness, how does one pronouce "Auke Kok"?

I'm not the definitive source, but I believe it's rendered approximately as "OW-kuh CAULK" (i.e., last name is more like the English word "caulk" than "cock," and the "uh" part is not very pronounced (so to speak)--sort of an afterthought, almost).

But I'm not actually Dutch; I just work with 'em. ;-)

Greg

10 Questions with Auke Kok

Posted Jul 8, 2003 13:38 UTC (Tue) by erat (guest, #21) [Link] (2 responses)

This guy balks at SuSE because development packages are not installed by default. I guess
it's easier to build a Linux distribution from the ground up than it is to run a few RPM
command lines.

Developers... SHEESH. :)

10 Questions with Auke Kok

Posted Jul 8, 2003 15:23 UTC (Tue) by proski (guest, #104) [Link] (1 responses)

As far as I know, SuSE doesn't include apt-rpm, so "a few" can actually be "a lot", especially for those who manage many systems.

10 Questions with Auke Kok

Posted Jul 8, 2003 17:12 UTC (Tue) by erat (guest, #21) [Link]

Multiply building/deploying a Linux distro by the number of machines being managed and
I'll guess that running RPM is less resource intensive, even if it must be run "a lot". It's a lot
easier to install software than it is to wipe a machine clean and start over from scratch with
a new distro.

10 Questions with Auke Kok

Posted Jul 10, 2003 8:09 UTC (Thu) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link]

Lunar is for everyone. Though it may be extremely hard for the beginner to administer, (...)

If it is "extremely hard for the beginner to administer", then surely it is not "for everyone" ? Surely the beginner would be better off with something a little less daunting as an introduction to Linux ? Atleast if we disregard those few newbies who actually *like* programming in Intercal.