Hi there... My name is Marcos Daniel Marado Torres, but I'm often known in the Internet by the handle of Mind Booster Noori.
I was born in the Yule day of 1982 in Lamego - Portugal. I'm an Informatics Engineer since July of 2005.
While in 2005 I moved my web presence here, now I have another website, with another blog.
Here's an interesting Debian fork: A/DeMuDi. I haven't tried it myself (yet), but it's the first Debian fork I see that does it in the right way (well, except Knoppix, that does it in the right way considering that what you want is a live CD and not a distribution to install).
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well, i do not know what you mean by "does it the right way" [i am just an user, can you explain, please?], but i tried this a long time ago, i think the site was blue then. it was nice and it was a good way to discover software and how to edit audio (i was doing a radio show then) in gnu/linux.
ReplyDeletethe instllation was easy too, but i think all distros based on debian are
Wow, I wasn't expecting to get an user review this quick! :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I say that they do it the right way, is just that this distribution is 100% contributing to Debian. I mean, they distribute an instalation of Debian that comes with the sioftware they want, with the installer they want and stuff they want, but in the end, when you finish installing, you just have a Debian box - which means that you use debian packages, debian security repositories and so on. Now, what happens if you find a bug (for instance) in this Distro? They look at the package to know if the package is one of them or a Debian one. If it's from Debian, they contribute with it by filling a bug report on debian, helping to have the bug fixed, and everyone has profit with this, and not only the users of this fork. They take the best of Debian for they needs, and Debian takes the good parts of having their users as Debian users.
well, if you name a distro, there is a good chance that i had tried yet, even only for a week or even less. i can not count how many i tried [except gentoo, i can not install it, i do not know why, a friend installed it for me once, very nice to update, very nice to work with, but strange to install - i think i have an emotional problem with this distro :)]. my friends are always kidding because of that :)
ReplyDeletei never thought of that, that way, as i said i am just an user. this seems to me very nice. it is like the same distro, but with a direction more specific. sometime ago i thought making a livecd based on a similar concept.
i thought: there are diferent courses that need diferent software, for instance if you have journalism you need to edit video, audio and text, so with linux you can deliver a system that was made just for that kind of learning. then i thought, it is very difficult to make a livecd, my institution was not very interested in that idea, and finally there are so many distros, maybe this is not the way...
what i like in linux is that we do not have to adapt ourselves to the machine, but adapt the machine to us.
i am always making an analogy with education: windows is the old paradigm (one direction, students adapting to static currila, etc), gnu/linux is more like the new paradigm (students participating actively in their education, with multiple choices and constructing their own knowledge)
now i am using windows, blue screens, 2,3 crashes a day (ugh!), i am trying to learn swedish and a litle bit of finnish [yes, i know, i am insane :)] and i do not have applications for this kind of learning in linux (as far as i know), but i keep a partition with ubuntu, i am trying dapper drake now, but i am really curious about symphonyOS, they released a beta one and as soon as i have some time, i think i am going to install it :)
thanks so much for the explanation :) :)
(my english is not very good, but i hope it is understandble)
Heh, don't bash on your English, mine is far from perfect and that doesn't stop me on writting in English :-P
ReplyDeleteAbout "learning languages sofware", I don't know what exactly that is, but I can almost bet that if there's software for it for windoze, there's that kind of software also for Linux... It's a question of searching about it.
sorry, maybe i do not explain myself. i am using rosetta stone [http://www2.rosettastone.com/en/?a=b] for swedish and CASE Learning System [http://www.caselearning.com/] for finnish
ReplyDeletesee? this kind of stuff...
nonetheless, i am going to search again
I don't know any of those applications (you didn't explain badly, I'm the one who never used such kind of software), but it's something like TYK?
ReplyDeleteI did not know TYK, but it is something like that. Although I think TYK is more like an aid to learn a language, i suppose you have to know something of the language you are learning.
ReplyDeleteCase learning is not very good (i did not founf Finnish to Rosetta), but Rosetta Stone is really powerful because you do not need to know anything about the language. The first exercices are very basic, they give you four pictures (for instance, a girl, a cat, a dog and a woman) and they give the word and you have to click on the right image, then the exercices get more difficult, with phrases and text. You hear the words, you write them and you can even record your voice. This way, even if you do not know any word of that language you can learn it :)
I am going to install TYK to try it. (thanks)