Ututo-e: "The only free distribution" revisited
A year ago, I reviewed Ututo-e, an Argentinian distribution based on Gentoo. Ututo-e is known mainly as the only GNU/Linux distribution endorsed by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF). This endorsement is based on the fact that Ututo-e, in the words of Peter Brown of the FSF, "makes a commitment to follow the philosophy of the FSF as to what makes a distribution ethically free software." Last year, this endorsement seemed premature, because Ututo-e, while promising in some places, was buggy in many more. A year later, the 2006 release of Ututo-e is more polished, especially in its desktop and selection of administration tools, but its English version still falls below the standard of leading distributions such as Debian or Fedora Core.
Ututo-e uses a text-based installation program. Like the installer in the last version of the distribution, available options are limited to partitioning and the setting of locale, keymap, and time zone. Custom partitioning is available, but the installer is designed to encourage the creation of four partitions -- swap, root, /home, and /boot -- while custom partitioning includes an option for a separate /var partition. No package selection is available; instead a standard 2,371MB worth of software is installed. Network and Internet connections, as well as printers and sound, are left for users to set up for themselves after installation. Probably the most noticeable change is that the current installer completes in about 25 minutes, almost twice as fast as the previous one.
The Ututo installer is not difficult to navigate, but users do need to be alert to its quirks.
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