Comment Re:What's the point of this? (Score 2, Informative) 181
Q: What's the point of this?
A: To create, explore, understand and to share with the world. The four greatest reasons behind hacking.
Q: Who is going to use this?
A: My clients, my company, my friends. I run small but growing GNU Linux company in NJ. My clients, home users (including my best friend's 87 year old mother who "rocks on the Ark"), 3 recording studios, 2 photography studios, 1 independent film studio and last but not least me. All my critical systems user Ark Linux 2006.1. Which, btw, is the only "full sized" distro that will run on my "Hell Labs" test machine. An AMD k6-2 500 with 256MBs of RAM with a Trident 4MBs PCI video card. Ark works completely.
S: but no newbie is going to use this, they're going to use Ubuntu.
R: And almost all of them ran back to MS Windows. I convinced them to try again with Ark and they love it.
S: The people that are going to use this distro are the tinkerers that have the knowledge and capability to customize their own distro to meet their own spec.
R: Which means its powerful enough for experienced users (such as myself). Thank you.
S: Distros like this piss me off.
R: Good to know we are doing something right. Thanks again.
S: Shit like this is holding Linux back.
R: Isn't that somewhat similar to someone in the proprietary software field said regard software diversity? Can you say MONOPOLY?
S: Instead of forking every time and serve a user base of 200, why don't you use your talent and skill to polish a distro that's actually going to go somewhere!
R: It is going somewhere. Onto my clients and friends computers. I'm using Ark Linux for my company's only distro and thus far it has served me so well, I decided to join the Ark Linux team. Perhaps a tiny little company run by a woman out of "Joisey" doesn't mean much to people at large, but it certainly seems to scare the hell out of Microsoft and software vendors (I'll ask them to blog next time they call, begging me NOT to sell GNU Linux based computers).
Last thoughts:
Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat and the like have millions of dollars behind them and hundreds if not thousands of employees working for them and yet, Ark Linux has achieved nearly the same results. In some cases, they have done better than their rich, well staff counter parts. A word on Polish? MS Windows is well polished but polish, doesn't save your data when you computer suddenly crashes. Polish doesn't protect your privacy, or protect you from HOLES in the OS so large millions of viruses can get through, even with firewalls and antivirus software. Polish doesn't protect you from DRM BS that's really a smoke screen for trying to cash in more than once on a product you already purchased.
Which would you rather have? A car that looks great, costs a fortune but can't move itself out of your driveway? Or an old chevy that can make a Mac Truck leak its oil? A chevy you can recreate to match youself? You do the math.
Proudly signed,
Kate Draven
CyberPunk X Computers
A: To create, explore, understand and to share with the world. The four greatest reasons behind hacking.
Q: Who is going to use this?
A: My clients, my company, my friends. I run small but growing GNU Linux company in NJ. My clients, home users (including my best friend's 87 year old mother who "rocks on the Ark"), 3 recording studios, 2 photography studios, 1 independent film studio and last but not least me. All my critical systems user Ark Linux 2006.1. Which, btw, is the only "full sized" distro that will run on my "Hell Labs" test machine. An AMD k6-2 500 with 256MBs of RAM with a Trident 4MBs PCI video card. Ark works completely.
S: but no newbie is going to use this, they're going to use Ubuntu.
R: And almost all of them ran back to MS Windows. I convinced them to try again with Ark and they love it.
S: The people that are going to use this distro are the tinkerers that have the knowledge and capability to customize their own distro to meet their own spec.
R: Which means its powerful enough for experienced users (such as myself). Thank you.
S: Distros like this piss me off.
R: Good to know we are doing something right. Thanks again.
S: Shit like this is holding Linux back.
R: Isn't that somewhat similar to someone in the proprietary software field said regard software diversity? Can you say MONOPOLY?
S: Instead of forking every time and serve a user base of 200, why don't you use your talent and skill to polish a distro that's actually going to go somewhere!
R: It is going somewhere. Onto my clients and friends computers. I'm using Ark Linux for my company's only distro and thus far it has served me so well, I decided to join the Ark Linux team. Perhaps a tiny little company run by a woman out of "Joisey" doesn't mean much to people at large, but it certainly seems to scare the hell out of Microsoft and software vendors (I'll ask them to blog next time they call, begging me NOT to sell GNU Linux based computers).
Last thoughts:
Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat and the like have millions of dollars behind them and hundreds if not thousands of employees working for them and yet, Ark Linux has achieved nearly the same results. In some cases, they have done better than their rich, well staff counter parts. A word on Polish? MS Windows is well polished but polish, doesn't save your data when you computer suddenly crashes. Polish doesn't protect your privacy, or protect you from HOLES in the OS so large millions of viruses can get through, even with firewalls and antivirus software. Polish doesn't protect you from DRM BS that's really a smoke screen for trying to cash in more than once on a product you already purchased.
Which would you rather have? A car that looks great, costs a fortune but can't move itself out of your driveway? Or an old chevy that can make a Mac Truck leak its oil? A chevy you can recreate to match youself? You do the math.
Proudly signed,
Kate Draven
CyberPunk X Computers
