The Yoper team is pleased to announce the Public Release of Yoper V2. Combining the elements of raw speed with the renowned stability of Linux, the V2 is the fastest Óut -of-the-Box Linux system in the World (See speed comparison at www.yoper.com)
Seamless updating and software integration provided by Apt/Synaptic. Leading edge Technology enhancements using Linux kernel 2.6.7, bolstered with performance patches, innovative Prelinking, win4lin support, vmware support, vmware module integration, Nvidia 3D support, reiserfs4, Secure Shell file System, CDROM Supermount, and Ndiswrapper for Windows binary driver Integration.

Yoper is a high performance operating system which has been carefully optimised for PC's with either 686 or higher processor types. The binaries that come with Yoper have been built from scratch using the original sources combined with the best features of from the major distros. However, Yoper is not like the general purpose distros such as Redhat or Mandrake. It is a high performance desktop OS. It is compact. In fact, Yoper is one of the most standardised Linuxes that you will find and hardware performancetries to be better better than that of any commercial OS.

What can I use Yoper for? 

• Terminal servers (Ydesktop terminal server)
• Workstations (Ydesktop)
• Home systems (Ydesktop)
• Cluster systems (Yminimal)
• Development system able to run thousands of available software packages and on which new packages can be developed.
• High end and high performance internet servers.
• High performance firewalls and routers.

Why another Linux? 

As Linus Torvalds stated in a TV interview the reason he started Linux was to make the OS market as varied as the car manufacturing market. We at Yoper did not want to create just another "VW" or "Ford" but wanted to create the ultimate car taking the best features of say a Ferrari or a Mercedes. However YOS is not a Ferrari or a Mercedes when it comes to price.

There is still plenty of room in a market for another OS which is dominated by non-unix OS's. Yoper fills the gap between the guru-only Gentoo or Linux from scratch OS's, and Linux distros used by businesses or home users, that still want the best possible desktop. For businesses we can adapt Yoper for your organization so that you get exactly what you want.

What hardware does Yoper support? 

The 686 version of Yoper desktop supports the following CPU's:

• Pentium II
• Pentium Pro/ Celeron
• Pentium III /Celeron Coppermine
• Pentium 4 /Xeon
• Athlon/Duron/K7 (Athlon-xp and Athlon-mp)
• Cyrix M2

What are the best features of Linux that are part of Yoper? 

Thanks to the contribution of other Linux developers and vendors to open source software we have been able to integrate these great features into our OS:

• The base system is built from scratch.
• Packagetools come from Slackware (installpkg, removepkg, xfree86setup).
• Raidtools from Redhat.
• Kudzu Hardware recognition from RedHat.
• Startup scripts from RedHat.
• Mozilla from Netscape Ltd.
• OpenOffice from Sun.
• Hwsetup from Knoppix.

How do you build your own Yoper package? 

Open a terminal, change to su, and type the following:

• touch /var/install-logs/.timestamp
• tar -zxf PACKAGE.tar.gz or tar -jxf PACKAGE.tar.bz2
• cd PACKAGE
• find `pwd` -exec touch '{}' ';'
• ./configure --prefix=/whatever you choose --whatever additional options you need
• make
• make install
• install-log PACKAGE
• tar -czf /var/install-logs/PACKAGE.tgz -T /var/install-logs/PACKAGE

• alien -r /var/install-logs/PACKAGE.tgz
• alien -d /var/install-logs/PACKAGE.tgz

That is it. It is that simple to build a package on Yoper. The built package can now be either reused if you need to reinstall, or you can give it to your mates or use it on another machine.

Yoper concentrates with Ydesktop on:

1. Speed of deployment
2. Speed, beauty and reliability of the GUI
3. Allows customising through support of other package types
4. Integration into existing networks and systems by systemadmins
5. Stability and speed

From the hundreds of posts and emails we have received it certainly seems that we have achieved what we set out to achieve: speed and beauty. Already the first commercial conversions from Windows to Yoper are being undertaken in New Zealand.

Finally we would like to thank you for downloading and trying Yoper and we are glad to see our core desktop OS so successfully accepted by a wide range of users.

Read more at yoper.com