A look at UHU-Linux 2.1 RC2
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 22:54.
More than one year ago, I reviewed UHU-Linux 2.0, and I very much liked it. Now, when UHU-Linux 2.1 is about to be released (I don't understand Hungarian, so I can't read their forums, but I suspect they want to release before Christmas), I tested UHU-Linux 2.1 RC2 (released on 12/16), downloaded from here: uhu-linux-2.1-rc2-dvd.iso.
The installation screens are not radically changed since the previous version, so I'll pass over them without screenshots.
As usual, you should press F9 first, and change the language from Magyar to English. Then, I tried to upgrade an existing UHU-Linux installation (a snapshot between 2.0 and 2.1), but it said the found 2.0 system was not upgradeable, so I had to perform a fresh install.
Those installing the system in English will be prompted with an extra screen before reading the License (which is in Hungarian). The said screen explains a few things, such as the fact that there is no bugzilla, but you can forward your bug reports to dev[AT]uhulinux.hu. Then, you can't click the "License" button before 2 minutes!
After 2 minutes, I was prompted that "The magic keycombo to jump over this page is CTRL-SHIFT-E!" Go figure.
Multilingual is always host country dependent ? Enjoy it there ?
The task of translating from english to host country language made the task difficult to isolate each language independently. It is ideal if you live there and use dual language.
UHU is Debian based, so the choice is too many, old among new, Its a horrendous task then to have language translation on top of all the debian codes of stable, unstable and testing. No wonder, older versions are not upgradable. Trying everything in a review would be too many bugs; it probably would be great for a Hungarian Debian expert to play with all the codes in the dvd distro on a lonely night.
Pete of lindowsuser.com fame had moved to Hungary to work, and was interested in UHU as a distro. It now included most of Debian repository on one dvd, shades of Knoppix. Eventually, the workload will get the developers burned out. Knopper is now only interested in audio developments?
However, someday Hungarians will do a tiny livecd; just to get the on demand applications on the interent. Xstart right into firefox; and use the latest realtime threads in Firefox efficiently; then add window manager functions in the taskbar; and commandline functions in Firefox addressbar. Toolbar would take care of kernel operating system functions?
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?