Peach OSI : suite et fin… C’est vraiment de la distribution à oublier.

9 réflexions sur « Peach OSI : suite et fin… C’est vraiment de la distribution à oublier. »

1. Je crois qu’il est temps de laisser tomber ces distributions ne garantissant aucune traçabilitée sur le suivi du développement.

   On veut de la traçabilitée partout. Et pourquoi pas dans l’informatique.

   Je trouve d’ailleurs cela incroyable, avec linux c’est probablement le seul système d’exploitation qui le permet et qu’est-ce qu’on constate… La prolifération des distributions dérivées dont on a aucune chance d’avoir un suivi… Je vais même pas parler du support.

   Mais il faut aussi que tu fasses vivre ton blog

   Bien à toi

   Thierry

   1. Il faut cependant en parler. C’est une dérive (sans mauvais jeu de mots) du monde du logiciel libre. Même Ladislav Bodnar que je contacte de temps à autre pour l’aider à purger la liste d’attente des distributions sur Distrowatch (j’ai dû l’aider à en enlever une bonne cinquantaine voire plus), me disait : « Well, it just shows – there too many distros! »

      Inutile de traduire. Il faut parler de ce problème, même ad-nauseam pour faire comprendre qu’il y a des limites à poser et à respecter.

2. On t’entend nickel sur la vidéo c’est cool 🙂
   Merci pour le test de cette Xubuntu surchargée ! (Je ne savais pas qu’il était possible de faire autant de doublons !)

   1. Pour le son ? Un micro acheté à l’hypermarché du coin, et payé une fortune : 8 € !

      Sinon, côté surcharge, je pense qu’on peut trouver pire… Mais ce serait difficile !

3. Alors, cool le son est bien mieux, par contre je vois que la distribution n’est pas vraiment au « top » quand je pense qu’on peut installer une petite Debian en Français et sans doublon, je me pose la question: pourquoi chercher ailleurs ?
   A pluche.

   1. Parce qu’elle existe et qu’il faut en parler même si dans 6 mois elle n’est plus qu’une entrée dans le musée des distributions GNU/Linux morte au combat ?

4. I’m sorry you didn’t like the distro. My target audience is for the millions that have never used a Linux operating system. If you would like to give me any constructive suggestions please visit my site and feel free to add whatever you’d like.

   The problem with the downloading of Peach OSI was that my web host was getting hit with so many download requests that it could not handle them all. As a result they are trying to move it to a different server.

   As far as this distro going the way of so many others, I hope not. I’ve been doing this computer thing for 4 decades, yep, I’m that old. It’s my purpose and belief that there is a real need for a free/GNU operating system for the masses that anyone can use.

   If you could please define the issues directly that you encountered so that I can address them properly.

   1. Well, I will answer you here and give you a copy by email.

      The problem with the downloading of Peach OSI was that my web host was getting hit with so many download requests that it could not handle them all. As a result they are trying to move it to a different server.

      what about using an host like sourceforge ? You’ll get easily some mirrors all over the world. What about a torrent seed ? Every single distribution I talked about use at least a mirroring site.

      As far as this distro going the way of so many others, I hope not. I’ve been doing this computer thing for 4 decades, yep, I’m that old. It’s my purpose and belief that there is a real need for a free/GNU operating system for the masses that anyone can use.

      I’m just using computers since 1989. Not as a programmer but as an end user. Linux ? Since 1997, on and off, single booting linux distributions since 2006.

      And masses ? I think your project is what ? The 500th or so with that ideal.

      Issues ? A short list :

      1. Installer crashing while using a not english locale.
      2. Remaining of remastering. While I try to first start LibreOffice, I got a message that a previous profile left opened documents. A « jim » user or something like this. Or on Mozilla Firefox first start, I got the « restoring crash page ».
      3. Why so many « doubles » for some tools. Why LibreOffice and Abiword + Gnumeric ? Why Brasero and Xfburn ? Why gMusicBrowser and Banshee ?
      4. Why there is no link for Xfce Terminal in dropdown menu ?

      And I think I forgotten some issues.

      You’ve got my answer, feel free to go on with your distribution. But for me, it will go the way of the dodo like others « I made it for the masses » distributions like PearOS, ColorwheelOS and many others.

      As we say in France : « it is easy to criticize, but hard to act. »

      I’m facing this truth in another domain. I’m just sad to see you proposed something I’ve saw too many times.

      You wanted my answer, you’ve got it.

5. First let me say thank you for your comments and for your reviews..

   I especially like your comment : As we say in France: « It is easy to criticize, but hard to act.  »

   I do appreciate your candor. It is comments like yours that can and will make a difference with my, as you say, destined to die OS. I have already signed up on Sourceforge. I did that Friday and I’m still waiting for whatever it is that they do to get me approved. My site went live on Thursday of last week, the 24th. I do not believe that anyone could have predicted 47,000 + hits per day in just the 4th day after opening the site. I do aplogize for my short sitedness and for everyone’s frustration with the downloads. I would not put up with that either.

   I won’t go through a list of the applications and why I decided to exclude or include them. I had my reasons for some. Others were included by request during the planning stage. Maybe too many requests. Most people in the US use either Windows or OSX. That’s the masses that I mentioned. Most are too lazy here in the US to do anything much more than push a button let alone learn to use a Linux terminal and heaven forbid having to take the time to research anything. By including more than one application for one process I solved two issues. « I don’t like ….. I like ….. »

   In the next few days I will address the « left over » issues that you mentioned. I don’t know if you’ve ever done something like this before but the skeleton file or skel file is used to include or exclude setup information during the rebuild. It will be easy to fix those issues. They should have been removed during the rebuild and I apologize and I am embarassed that you had any such issue. There is no reasonable excuse that your download had such corpses.

   We have a saying here in the US too …. A pilot can fly the plane but he can’t get anywhere without the navigator.

   I’ll fly this damn thing the best I can as long as people like you point me in a direction….. I promise….

   Einstein Quote: « The difference between a smart person and a genius is that a smart person knows all the answers. The genius, on the other hand, the genius knows how to find the answers. »

   I’m certainly no genius but I will continue to try to find the answers…

   We in the US have another saying,  » Those that can – they do. Those that can’t – they teach. Those that can’t do or teach, do you know what they do? They administrate.  »

   Thanks again,
   Jim – One of the doers

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