Yoper 3.0 Beta (Blacksand) released

Hey Yoper fans, version 3.0 Beta has been released. It’s time to warm up those test boxes and see what this latest release has to offer!

The team, together with lead-developer Tobias Gerschner, are proud to announce the start of the public beta-testing phase of Yoper GNU/Linux. After the last official 2.1 release (2004) and the last beta release 2.2 (2005), things became quiet at Yoper. Andreas Girardet, the founder and long-time developer of Yoper, resigned as Yoper lead developer in 2005 and handed over the duties to Tobias Gerschner.

After rewriting all internal scripts, the inclusion of the Kanotix hardware-detection, a completely overhauled command line installer, a brand new GUI-installer (written from scratch) and several internal (and thus unannounced) alpha-releases, the time for public beta-testing has come.

The ~ 630 MB ISO-file includes Kernel 2.6.15, Xorg 6.8.2, etcnet, KDE 3.5.0, Koffice, Firefox 1.5, Thunderbird 1.5 and lots of other cutting-edge packages.

Yoper remains true to its philosophy: the best from all distributions. Fast and easy to install, the fastest KDE Desktop out of the box, instantly ready for work, optimized for i686 and compatible processors . It features SMART as the package-manager and an optimized package-building procedure with a new buildserver accessible to the public.

We, the Yoper team, would be pleased to receive strong community support during our new betaphase-testing. Source: Yoper

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