On the Bench: Ulteo Sirius Alpha
The open source movement has it’s share of heroes. Individuals that can motivate groups of individuals and rally them behind a certain part of the development process. People like Gaël Duval, who created the Mandrake (now Mandriva) distribution, one of the most accessible and user-friendly distributions for W2L migrators. Enough has been said about him being fired from the company he helped to found. Today is today and Gaël Duval is putting himself behind a new project, a new distribution, a new way of using open source software.
The concept -as I understand it- is not just to build a new distribution. The concept is closer to the Web 2.0 buzz: to create an always accessible desktop environment, no matter where you are. Ulteo is aiming to be one of the most userfriendly and most easy to main Linux distribution. The concept encompasses an upgrade function that always and automatically checks whether updates and upgrades are available and implements them seamlessly.
Ulteo is based on Ubuntu and hence it boots up as a live CD. From then on it is as easy as double-clicking the install button. The usual six step process appears where you can set the language, the keyboard, the time zone, your name and password and the partition table. In step 6 you commit the whole thing. While the install continues there is some time to look at the KDE desktop. For now Ulteo only comes with KDE, but other desktops are part of the roadmap. It does make sense for W2L migration to look at KDE first.
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