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I’m shocked. A distro with a name that’s actually not too bad and gives an indication as to what the damn thing is supposed to be used for.
Beyond that, it’s a low-FUD-rating page with horrible JPG backgrounds, comically broken English and various mini rants about the evils of non-free software. Unique in that it bashes Debian for not being free enough.
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http://www.gnu.org/distros/
GNU recommended distro. It being worse than anything else is predictable.
“They reject non-free applications, non-free programming platforms, non-free drivers, non-free firmware “blobs”, and any other non-free software and documentation. If they discover that by mistake some had been included, they remove it. “
What..
For no very good reason, I downloaded it. I’ll keep you up to date, if I can be bothered.
“For no very good reason, I downloaded it. I’ll keep you up to date, if I can be bothered.”
Why even bother trying it out. By looking at the page you can tell how good it’s going to be.
And that’s where you’re wrong, my friend.
If you can fight your way to the actual download (a wonderfully obfuscated process), you will find the alternatives of Live CD or USB. Well, I figured, version 1.0 on Live CD can’t be that dreadful.
The choice you actually get for “stable” is 2.0 on DVD, so I picked that. Chrome chugs away at whatever third-world ISP is yoked in on the basis that there are 4.9 GB to download (which doesn’t look quite right). After getting as far as zero, it finishes.
Next task: burn the iso to a DVD. (I’m getting goose-bumps here.) Nero doesn’t seem to like this. I have to manually adjust the settings. Nothing works. OK, I’ll go for the default.
The default claims that I don’t need a DVD-R, I need a CD-R.
To cut a long story short, I now have a CD of Musix that took approximately 90 seconds of lead-in, 1 second of data, and 90 seconds of lead-out to burn. According to my (admittedly ancient) XP file system, this CD contains 1.9 GB of data, and in fact has all the Live CD directories you’d expect.
I think I’ll give it a miss.
@DRLOSER
Lol wtf everybody knows binaries suxorz. This is FLOSS softwarez man, get the codez and compile it yourself to get the real thing, n00b.
Do it the penguin/free way, not the micro$oft/proprietary way. Abolish the conformist way of doing things (aka downloading binaries) and embace the free spirit of lunix. Remember, MS is doomed. The penguin will come an save us all.
I know lots of musicians with causes. It was only a matter of time before they’d choose “software freedom” as a cause too.
@DrLoser
Get a Linux Live CD and then burn it from there… but wait! you need to remove the CD for burning another one first you say? OH SHI-
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