Sad news comes to me from the hand of unixmen: dreamlinux has been discontinued. The reasons? They are unknown for now. Although version 5 of this distribution was released at the beginning of the year, apparently we will no longer have support for it.
In his site They don't say anything about it, they just leave us as a consolation to be able to download part of the Artwork of this excellent distribution. dreamlinux is (or was) based on Debian Testing and use my missed Desktop Environment Xfce.
Although it was not exactly the lightest of the distributions, dreamlinux it was perfectly usable on low-end computers, and it gave us a warm and elegant appearance, focused primarily on the end user.
His goal was to be as simple as possible. It had a one-click installation system (one-click install system) what did they do dreamlinux a very easy to use distribution. In addition, by default it included video codecs, flashplayer and a series of applications that made dreamlinux an excellent option as the main Operating System.
You can download part of the artwork from the following links:
Too bad, also from what I see the web no longer works: /, a pity really. Regards.
Just when it was reborn ……….
I never tried it, I wouldn't know what to say.
Surely the guy who developed it has already finished university and now he will dedicate himself to doing serious things that give him money, it is the same reason why applications such as tv time or camstudio stopped being developed and it is the same reason why the games of steam or valve will fail in linux that system is only used by curious people and computer students with little purchasing power and a young age but then when they mature and become professionals they end up using mac or they return to windows, I bet not even renowned characters in the world open source use it as linus or icaza for example
There are those who go to Mac and end up missing Linux, and I do not think that due to lack of purchasing power. If the New York Stock Exchange and NASA use Linux, I don't think it's because it isn't enough for Macs either.
And as far as I know, the founders elav and KZKG ^ Gaara they work on Linux.
Yep .. more than 5 years with the penguin in tow .. And so happy ..
Amen! 😀
Both elav and I use 100% Linux, and we both program, manage networks, elav designs (not a pro, but almost), anyway… lots of things without using Windows 🙂
Juat ?? Troll detected !!
Cosiaca, well I will not be the best reference but I must say that in my family we have 6 notebooks and 2 macs, and I am one of those who work daily with Linux, I can be the only one in my company to use it, but please do the rest of the people occupy windows because they do not know anything else, in fact they hardly know mac, if it weren't for the iphone, they wouldn't even know the apple brand As my family said, they occupy linux from my mother (65 years old) to my 6-year-old nephew they occupy it daily, so I think it is not going to mature or have greater purchasing power, for me the mac now are a scam but hey nothing to do, likewise I think there are many other people like me who promote the use of linux for daily life and work and that is what counts in the end because the more diversity in the users, the bigger the community becomes and we will have normal users even the most experienced, people who came and people who grew up using linux, well for the dreamlinux I never tried this distro a shame but there will be others that are born and with better ideas, greetings guys
cosiaca .... really that Linux is just a group of people without doing?
Find out a little what RedHat, SuSe, Oracle is… and I would follow him, but with the stupidity of betting that neither Linus nor Icaza use it….
One that comes out and another that comes in will come, that happens because of having so many Linux distributions, for some that is a very attractive point that Linux has, for others, it subtracts category. That would be a good topic for discussion.
I will always defend that there are tons of distributions. In addition, most choose one of the most popular and that's it. The fact that there are several editions of Windows if it removes a category because its existence cannot be justified.
There are distros for almost everything, focused on a very small audience and meeting their needs with it.
Tons of distros don't downgrade Linux but they aren't a bonus either. There are many clone distros that do not contribute anything. Distros that fight each other for the same user, offering the same and with the same philosophy. That does not help GNU / Linux development. That doubles efforts on a whim.
It does not duplicate efforts because they are focused on different groups of users, also that generates knowledge.
Are you suggesting that all distros target different user groups? If you believe that you are wrong. There are Debian-based distros with Xfce that don't differ from each other. That's not counting some derived from Ubuntu. You will tell me what knowledge that generates.
They don't duplicate efforts because these different distros are made by different groups or people. The creation of free / open source software is not monolithic like in a proprietary software company, it is more like a network. To quote Raymond: "... the Linux community (the kernel) was more like a bustling Babel bazaar, teeming with individuals with disparate purposes and approaches .."
http://biblioweb.sindominio.net/telematica/catedral.html
We do not discuss how free software is created. I have created a distribution based on Kubuntu that does not contribute anything to free software, because there are no new codes / designs. I have limited myself to using the work of others. Some do the same by providing new logos and names. Thanks to free licenses we can effortlessly clone other's distros. It can be done but it is not useful or valuable. If people working on identical distros allied to improve a common project, they would achieve greater success. The huge number of distros is a GNU / Linux evil. A lesser evil brought about by freedom.
http://masquepeces.com/windousico/2012/09/la-disgregacion-de-gnulinux-no-se-puede-llamar-diversidad/
It is true that the agreement in the projects can benefit their progress, but then the diversity (or disintegration) is not the problem but the lack of agreement between the individuals or communities of free software, the multiplicity of distros or similar projects is a consequence, a symptom. If we make an analogy with political systems, we could say that a dictatorship is much more desirable than a democracy, because in the first there is only one party and all (well, not all) "shoot" for the same side and in the second they multiply the parties, many of them of the same ideology (here in Argentina the left is fragmented into many parties and this is one of the criticisms made of it). As you well affirm, everything is a consequence of freedom and the only way to add is through consensus, in that I agree, but I have no right to criticize what others do with the freedoms that free software grants them. Regards.
Dictatorship ≠ Democracy ≠ Anarchy.
Greetings.
If we look closely at the free software "movement" it is anarchic, there is no center of power, there is no authority; It is subject to the free will of individuals to associate with each other to work on what they have in common (the released software, which belongs to everyone but is not owned by anyone in particular). Of course I take anarchy in the political sense, not as a synonym for disorder or disorganization. Greetings and thanks for the chat.
That there are so many distributions is normal, natural, and part of the evolutionary process. Here the concept of "Natural Selection" applies perfectly: Only the fittest will survive. As simple as nature itself. Criticizing this is like criticizing that there are many species of birds or fish. What do you care how many species or Linux distros there are? Let them be and let nature decide which is the best. I see it as a very HEALTHY and NECESSARY process.
I have not given my opinion, I have only left the subject open. Which by the way deserves a separate article, don't you think?
+1 Diversity exists as a consequence of freedom. The lower diversity would indicate that free software no longer causes so much enthusiasm. And with this I do not mean that it is not good that there are standards and consensus on some points, but those points in common can only come from a mutual agreement in an area of freedom. Regards.
Cosiaca I think you are wrong in your comments, do not be more daddy than the PAPA, because Linux is used by many entities and it is not only because of costs but because of its benefits
That such.
It's a shame that this distro no longer has continuity. I have used it for a long time (version 3 I think) and I was left with a pleasant impression.
Although distributions come and go sometimes if it is somewhat difficult to accept that one disappears, perhaps not because of its impact on the number of users but in the fact that some of them have characteristics that are unique and their own.
You are absolutely right… it makes me remember how bad I felt about the Pardus case that had everything going for it to become a renowned and reference distribution and look how it ended.
Dear, I agree with you, remembering the case of Pardus gives me an immense sorrow, and to think that I helped in the writing of the wikis, in making it known in forums, and also successfully being able to install it on several computers of friends ... it is a shame to lose so nice distro. The good thing is that they have already begun to port Pardus code (Kaptan, Comar), to other distros / projects, so it leaves us a great legacy. . Pardus is not completely dead… there is a project out there called Anka… ^^
I used this distro for a while and with it I enrolled a couple of friends to encourage them to use Linux. I think it's a shame that distros get lost like this. But as others say it is almost like the natural order between those who arrive and those who go out.
Among others, which Dock ended up using this distro?
I can honestly say that Dreamlinux is one of the distributions where Xfce shines and looks beautiful .. A shame the truth that this happens .. Well, maybe someone is excited and continues to maintain it or a fork of it ..
These are the things that scare me about small distros. That by not having a large development community, if one fails, it's over. I've been thinking about changing my dear Arch for Manjaro for a while (I haven't been able to update the kernel for months because it leaves me without a keyboard or touchpad), since I'm more tempted to try a semi-rolling that offers me more stability (and no, it doesn't work for me Chakra because I can't stand KDE), since my time to go around getting my hands on the PC was noticeably reduced, but without losing all the advantages of Arch. But with these things you never know. I think that for now it is best to continue under the shadow of a large distro like Arch.
It is true that sometimes it can be a problem to have so many distros, but in the end many, those that do not contribute anything new (not always as in the case of Pardus), disappear and only the best ones remain that really have something to offer, something different either by ideals, way of working or technology. So it cannot be seen as a real problem. In the Linux world, the vast majority of users either use Ubuntu and / or derivatives such as Kubuntu, etc., Linux Mint, Arch, Fedora, Debian, Chakra, Slackware, openSUSE, Gentoo, PCLinuxOS.
This diversity shows the true freedom offered by linux and open source and its innumerable advantages.
Dear, it seems to me that having a lot of diversity is not a point in favor as many say, for me it is a disadvantage, between distributions there are many differences (both in installer packages, ways of running programs, etc.), for example there are RPM packages that They are made to run in FEDORA and they don't run on mandriva or ROSA, so sometimes what we have is a completely new, different OS, it's no longer as if we said we handle LINUX.
I started to see Linux more than 10 years ago and started with RedHAt with KDE, it seemed good to me but as I saw other distributions I kept trying, until I found mandrake (at that time) and it was much friendlier but had problems with sound drivers. So I went through several distributions until in the end I returned to win, in this case I stayed in win7 (stable, for work I have not had problems), then I found ubuntu, but when they changed to unity it seemed very heavy and I decided to return to win 7 again.
Well, testing and testing how much distribution I saw, I found MINT, stable, fast, friendly, but in the end it is still almost an ubuntu, the cinnamon desktop is good although it still needs to mature, I hope that for the next version it will be much better. In order not to extend the topic less than 1 month ago I found ROSA Fresh 2012, it is a Russian distribution (based on madriva), it uses a KDE modified by them, and for now it is the one I use even in my work, it comes with all the necessary packages To work, it recognized all the hardware in 3 different laptops in DELL, HP and SAMSUNG brands (this is the newest, the DELL is about 4 years old or more).
The truth is that now I feel comfortable with this distribution and what I read is a Russian company that works with various linux solutions, including a version for servers based on REDHAT.
Ultimately, as they say, distributions come and go but I think that is not the idea, one as a user wants to have a stable, friendly OS that has good support, it is useless if tomorrow "someone" comes up with a new distribution That works well for me but that in a couple of years it disappears, many will say well, you are looking for another, but for a company you can not jump from distribution just like that, in a company in the systems area, there is already a lot of work to be looking for new distributions and trying to get them to work with the hardware out there.
As a conclusion I think that among Linux distributions there should not be so many, if there are several they should be for specific purposes (for servers, home users, corporate users, games, etc. or a multipurpose one) and among all they should have a standard, which if I change I'm still on Linux and it doesn't seem like I'm going to another OS.
It is just my humble opinion from the experience I have with Linux and the distributions I have tested.
I quite agree with your comment, and I believe that the keyword is standard, there should be an agreement, it does not matter which library they are going to use, but how the data is going to work (to give an example) to facilitate certain jobs for driver developers for example, in a certain way Linux is a gimmick of a group of "children" who want to continue to be the center of attention but that no one knows their secrets too much without having to be "from the club" open source - closed minds I tell them, continue insisting on wanting to tell everyone how to do things, but the toy got out of hand, Linux has everything to be a very important operating system, but there are many people who are interested in keeping it that way, in order to "continue to belong to the select group »(pure bullshit of immature adolescents). On the other hand, not only companies need a system that provides certain security, users do too, and this is one of the keys why Linux fails to position itself in the desktop market and put up a real fight against Windows, Particularly, I work in computer science from 17 years ago, I have used and followed Linux development since its inception and have been through many (Mandrake, Corel Linux, Conectiva, Red Hat then Slackware, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse, Mint, Dreamlinux, PClinxOS, and the list goes on very long), Mandriva (today Mageia and Rosa) and Mint have always been the ones to my liking (If a Red Hat - Kde and another Debian - Gnome) for a simple reason: I have managed to make everything work without too many problems, they have been stable and they have allowed me to work without problems over time. I think diversity is good but not wasted work in vain or lack of vision for the future (linux standards) that would also benefit hardware manufacturers in the development of drivers and companies considering the idea of switching to open source . I still think that one of the worst mistakes of these "children" of Linux made a serious mistake in rejecting a company like Corel when it tried to switch to free software, until today we are all paying for that mistake. Finally, I am very sorry that a distro like Dreamlinux that provided a stable system, pleasing to the eye and with an excellent selection of software does not have continuity.
I never thought to read this news; It cost me to get it because its download is no longer available and I write this from the one I just finished installing; I started looking for information on how to install applications I found this news ... It's a real shame ...