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A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

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Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#11

Post by runjake »

A few things bother me:

1.) On the About page, the very first sentence states "Hadron is a Unix distribution which is based on Linux kernel and GNU operating system". Linux is not Unix, but they refer to it as "Unix" throughout the website.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but to me, this demonstrates poor situational and historical awareness.

2.) Who's responsible for this project? It's not straightforward to figure that out.

3.) A new package manager I've never heard of. This is fine, but combined with #2 -- I'll wait a while.

Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#13

Post by xxqs »

aw3c2 wrote: post #3
xxqs wrote: post #2

they feel themselves so cool that they don't bother explaining why one would need to use it. is it targeted for server use? desktop? embedded system? mobile system? How is it better than anything else? and, how long is it going to be supported and how big is the core team? (let me guess: just one developer and one user who is also the developer)

The homepage itself is the "About" section and explains some aspects: http://hadronproject.org/

more generally, what problem does it solve?

a tool that solves a nonexisting problem is quite useless in itself

Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#15

Post by rosser »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #9

What does this get me that Gentoo does not?

The only thing I can think of is that Hadron is completely Free Software. I don't know of any way on Gentoo to not use non-Free, particularly in satisfying dependencies. (It's been a Very Long Time since I've touched Gentoo, though; that may have changed.)

Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#16

Post by SomeOtherGuy »

>These patterns are mostly borrowed from BSD family and Gentoo Linux.

No. Stop blaming your horrible distros on BSDs. All the BSDs provide binary packages and encourage users to use them. Typing "make install" and watching the build script compile and package an identical binary package as the one on the public FTP servers is not learning anything, and does not make your system "advanced". Exposing the package build system to users lets them build custom packages when needed. It makes absolutely no sense to then say "we won't provide any binary packages for you" and force everyone to always compile everything themselves.

Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#17

Post by sciurus »

runjake wrote: post #11

A few things bother me: 1.) On the About page, the very first sentence states "Hadron is a Unix distribution which is based on Linux kernel and GNU operating system". Linux is not Unix, but they refer to it as "Unix" throughout the website. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but to me, this demonstrates poor situational and historical awareness. 2.) Who's responsible for this project? It's not straightforward to figure t…

It looks like the creator is Burak Sezer, "a Metallurgical & Materials Engineering student at Yildiz Technical University from Istanbul". His website is http://purak.org/

According to http://purak.org/blog/2011/02/24/new-post/ he had previously maintained a Gentoo derivative.

Re: A new Linux distro: Hadron is ready

#20

Post by Jach »

koenigdavidmj wrote: post #9

What does this get me that Gentoo does not?

My thoughts exactly. The power user market is saturated with Gentoo/Arch/BSDs and even Debian for some, we really don't need any more right now. I was hoping this was a new user-friendly competitor to Ubuntu because I can't recommend Ubuntu to newcomers anymore and Fedora and Mint always rubbed me the wrong way.
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