Pardus 2007, a couple of days later
Following Ladislav's review of Pardus 2007 in DWW, I had a rather hesitating start with Pardus.
I was intrigued about Pardus since I read about it on Polishlinux.org, then I was puzzled about the repositories before Christmas. Before even having installed it, I was declaring it as one of the Top 5+1 Promising Projects For 2007.
Under the circumstances, considering my posts in the comments section of the latest DWW issue as malevolent would not be fair.
I am now a couple of days later, with some more working experience in Pardus 2007. Using it "as a regular KDE user" was not a tremendous pain (remember, I am a GNOME user!), and the system had good performance and stability. Technically speaking, everything "just worked".
I will not tell again about the screen resolution issue, because xorg.conf was otherwise well-configured, and my Synaptics Touchpad worked perfectly (with scroll!) alongside with the USB mouse.
PiSi, the new and innovative package manager, is not only an interesting project, but it worked as expected so far. Updating the system from the CLI...
Also on the same site:
For a few days already, discussions about this comparative study of four "desktop indexing & search engines" which revealed that it's now Official: Strigi fastest and smallest have spread here and there.
I am not interested in the so-called "desktop search", as I hate "approximate" searches that only take into account already indexed data.
I personally don't care that much of Strigi only taking 3 min 44 s of CPU time (4 min 26 s of physical time) versus Beagle taking 12 min 5 s CPU time (2 hours and 18 minutes physical time!).
What matters is that while indexing, Strigi takes 82.75% of the CPU, which is equivalent, from a desktop user's point of view, with a kind of a "denial of service"!
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