IcePack is the third biggest German Linux distribution after SuSE and Knoppix. DistroWatch informs us that they recently released their commercial edition as a free download, as its developers are currently working on Icepack Linux 3.0. Icepack Linux 2.75 comes on 4 CDs, plus a bonus CD containing plenty of artwork, true type fonts and some commercial applications. Download from either the English, German, French and development web site.
Free Download of Icepack Linux 2.75
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I’m German and haven’t ever heared about it once, although I am downloading quite everthing Linux/BSD related for about 2 years now on general prinicple…
I think it’s about time for some of these distro makers to start justifying their existence, such as give us a list of things your distro does that the others don’t.
I know that choice is good, but the sheer number of distros out there is simply overwhelming. I look at the screenshots of these different distros and all I see are the same damn desktop enviroments and applications, so surely some of these people are duplicating their efforts, and making it confusing as hell for newcomers trying to figure out which distro is right for them.
Another linux distro…yay. Seriously, if you’re going to toss another distribution onto the pile, at least do something original. You should be able to complete the sentence: “This may look like other distributions, but it’s not because _________”.
I bought this distro back in Dec. 2002 (hey Adrian, thanks for the gummy bears and stickers!). On my old K62-450 it worked pretty good. The installer is easy enough to follow, and the whole thing looks good.
On my newer Athlon system (AthlonXP 2000+, Gigabyte GA-7VAX, ASUS GF4 128MB Ti4200), IcePack 2.75 wouldn’t install at all. Whether it was my fault or a bug with the distro, I don’t know. I’m gonna blame myself on that one.
For the install (and anyone else like me, “I don’t need no stinkin’ man pages!”– meaning, ofcourse, I need them but rarely read them :-)), there are a whole bunch of boot parameters you can use. What worked for me on that older system is — linux ICE-VIDEOvesa ICE-RESOLUTION1024x768 ICE-COLORDEPTH24 ICE-SLOWDOWN. These settings are just for the install, you can change everything later. Type that in at the boot prompt. The sites forums should be able to offer quite a bit more help.
I’m glad to hear that they are continuing work on ver 3.0. I check the site every now and again, but haven’t heard much in the way of the new release, until now. When 3.0 hits the street, I’m gonna order it for sure.
I don’t seem to recognize icepak linux boot/installation/config/login manager but it seems rather good, albeit the widget set looks a bit ugly.
It was written from scratch, using the WindowMaker toolkit.
He said 101 but listed 20, and really all are lies. That makes him a dumb liar.
Really, I wish open source programmers would organize a bit more instead of duplicating efforts. Debian is a perfect example of a concerted effort that produces a great distribution and that needs help. Squirrelmail needs help. There are emany software packages out there that are near professional but need some extra money and manpower to finish the job. Mozilla is 90% there. Pan is 90% there. We need an Exchange killer. That effort is about 80% there. We need a secure grand unified network logon system that doesn’t kludge across applications. Freesawn needs help. I can go on and on.
The general principal is that you can’t make volunteer free software coders work on anything that you want. They scratch a itch for themselves usually. That and it’s often easier to write your own app instead of messing in someone else’s codebase.
Of course, we might not ever get anywhere this way, but no way around it unless you want to help yourself
Bud, stop complaining, or put up the money and/or manpower to make these things happen. Just posting messages about how the community needs this or that is simply pointless. I’m halfway through a C programming course right now. So there you go, extra manpower. What are you doing?
“I think it’s about time for some of these distro makers to start justifying their existence”
Its a free world. If a bunch of people have the balls to go and create a new distro then good luck to them. Who are you to demand that they justify their existence.
It would be much better to say “gees just what we need- another guy watching TV all day everyday and contributing comments to OS news”.
The only entities in the software world that have to justify anything, are those that are charging money. And then the question becomes why is your distro worth $40.
Wow! We made it to post number 2 before hearing the ubiquitous “Yet Another Distro” tirade. Oh well.
To answer the “Yet Another Distro” question, the motivation behind each new distro is the same motivation behind new software; and that is to “scratch an itch” so to speak.
Perhaps these people feel that none of the distributions provide an installer that they like. Perhaps they want to improve upon an already existing distro (like Libranet bringing Debian to the masses).
Since most of the distros are available for free, I don’t understand all the vituperation.
I like complaining. Greasing squeaky wheels makes the world go round.
How do I contribute? I use only open source software. I use a lot of it. I fill out bug reports.
I’m also thinking about a few beginner books in C. Suggestions on a good title?
There’s only one download link and its taken 4 freakin hours to download 1 ISO. Any other places to get it from out there?
There is a good book from Andre Willms. I have only the german version, might be “learning C” in English. Publisher is Addison-Wesley.
Give it a try!
anyone know where to veiw the source to icepaks partion manager? It looks very promising.
I downloaded all and burned them on to cds,Thanks to all and the company.Phil