Dreamlinux 3.1 is out...

http://dreamlinuxforums.org/index.php/topic,1358.0.html

Fixed some bugs...I'm going to check it out again....it's ranked #2 behind Ubuntu in the last 7 days page hit ranking on DW so I thought it might be of interest to some. Good, good looking distro. Had some minor bugs when I tried 3.0, so off to the races again....

EDIT: I tried the XFCE install....wasn't bad, but 'easy install' had problems installing the Nvidia driver. When they get this thing polished up (on the inside), I think it's really going to be something. It seems they are really trying to do much at once, but it's a great effort so far.

 

What sets Dreamlinux apart from other distros? What features does it have?

 

It looks like OS X

 

the hardware recognition was great, the desktop with Awn/Engage whatever it is is great for dock fanatics....still needs a little polishing but is usable if you like it enough IMO. I think they are trying to be the OSX of the linux world....not a bad thing IMO.

 

I never really understood the point of a dock - it seems like an absolute waste of screen real estate. It's so much easier to assign keyboard shortcuts using the winkey+<a letter> than hunt for an icon every time you want to open an app.

AFACT, this is just another way to entice Windows/Mac users to make the switch (nothing wrong with that ).

 

^^^ I think that is the idea. Dream and gOS are trying to implement the enlightenment desktop to capture the OSXers. But if you shelled out good money for a macbook, why would you drop a clone of OSX into it?

At any rate, check out gOS's is new website that is obviously biting the style of Apple's marketing:

http://dev.thinkgos.com/

 

You can assign hotkeys to shortcuts in Windows easily.

DreamLinux does look awfully like OS X; maybe even better, IMO.

 

It seems like a good distro, but for now I'm sticking to Arch. I think I might try Ubuntu 8.04 though.

 

^^^ Yes! Drink the Kool Aid! (I mean that in a good way.)

 

lol, drinking the kool aid, haven't heard that one for sometime.

 

Ha....me either....conjures up some rather sordid images though....

 

It's looks fantastic, and debian based at that (if you like that), but how can I say it....they need just a tad bit of polishing of the internals to remove a few little gotchas....but I think it might give Ubuntu a run for the donations. Have you seen the DW page hit rankings lately, last thirty days, 3 months? Ubuntu has just run away with it. But DL is #2 in 7 days, I think 8th for 30 days? Interesting way to gauge popularity.