After a long delay, a new MakuluLinux LinDoz release is pending last-minute finishing touches and is a week — if not days — away, according to developer Jacque Montague Raymer. The new upgrade is designed to make using Linux easier than ever. Recently, Raymer discussed the trials and tribulations he faced in maintaining and advancing his Linux line of distros. He revealed a process that no doubt is similar to what confronts many software developers who step into the crowded and financially challenging field of Linux operating system creation.
[…] not confuse this Lindows distro with the LinDoz edition of the MakuluLinux upgrade I reviewed a few weeks ago. There is no connection between the […]
[…] not confuse this Lindows distro with the LinDoz edition of the MakuluLinux upgrade I reviewed a few weeks ago. There is no connection between the […]
I will be curious to see if the screen reader works with the menu. As far as I know there is only one decent screen reader in the Linux world and that is Gnome's Orca, created by a visually impaired employee of Sun MicroSystems. Earlier iterations of Lindoz and the screen reader worked once applications launched but incompatible with the Cinnamon DE Menu. How is a blind user going to find the application they want? Only one I have found that works is Zorin 12 and 15, and Debian distros armed with the ancient AWN Panel and YAMA (Yet Another Menu Application) which I succeeded to do in LinDoz 12 (or was it 10)
I have some considerable experience with Windows to Linux migrants and of those who stay with the latter the last thing they end up wanting is a system that looks like the former. Once anyone gets into Linux they appreciate the differences and aim to move as far away as possible from their past experiences. The other thing Makulu lacks is consistency with long drawn out gaps in development with next to no communication except a raft of excuses. The number of weekly downloads via SourceForge really says it all and this is just another bottom end distro sucking users away from more useful examples of the system.
While I really value everyone's opinion ( good and bad ) and I realize that not everyone will like Makulu, I fully understand it may not be to your liking. However I have to address the falseness of your claim, While we may not communicate often with the outside world it does not mean we do not work or consistently release. I myself work between 8 and 15 hours every day on Makulu, 7 days a week, no break and I have a day job as well, I live and breath makulu day in and day out and i get paid nothing for it, not one cent. We have also consistently released updated iso's to our distro's every year, IE last year Feb we released Lindoz, Now its Feb again and a new build is ready, this consistency we have kept year on year.
We would release sooner, but we are a small team and we dedicate a lot of time to testing and bug fixing and our releases aren't just standard DE's like most developers lean towards, We do a LOT of custom coding that requires a Lot of time to complete. We also have 10 releases scheduled this year ( it is a big reason why we have been so quiet, its been EXTREMELY hard work to make them ). Lastly, Just because we don't communicate a lot with the outside world, it does not mean we don't like talking, we have a chatroom that has members of the team and myself included online every day, you are always welcome to pop in and have a chat with us, we will gladly engage with you. I wish you luck with which ever distro you try, hopefully one of our distro's in the future will be to your liking. Good day :)
I have to disagree, at least for the most part. I've been trying to get my wife on Linux for ages. She detest Windows 10 and now that Windows 7 is at eol, she still refused to get Linux. I showed her a lindoz live usb and booted it to my computer and let her play with it. Within 10 minutes, she asked me to install it on hers, as soon as she's backed up her stuff. Now she loves Linux, with lindoz as her daily driver. I had to set up her printer on wifi and a few other minor things but she's happy now and hasn't complained about anything. She actually boots within a minute instead of about 7 minutes like it was with Windows.
I checked it out on my distro test comp. It is an older comp, an Asus T100. I was using a live USB and things were going well. I looked a while for a few minutes and returned to see that the computer froze.
The Asus has a dual boot Win10 and Mint distro. WIn10 runs well and if it handles wWin10 it should be able to handle most distros.
From what I did get to see the distro looks good and I liked what I saw!
Downloaded & ran this update. Thanks for the care about old, frail people like myself. Found it hard to switch off the BLING BLING. Plain, non-distracting background please, as an option? Sending another donation to you. Pensioner, so it's not much.
Not sure why you also do the Debian version. Appreciate your small & busy team. It shows. Final release has the SOURCE CODE repositories being default access to end users like myself.
You still do not know about GKRELLM (which PCLOS does best of all), GRUB CUSTOMIZER (which no distro can yet do properly).
Love you System Replication program. It should be default for every Linux operating system. Your version of UNETBOOTIN-type should be highlighted more. There is perhaps more then one version of a YUMI-like program for Linux.
Many of your icons & "mood" are lively & young. Refreshing, but a big shock to the serious business world. Young rebels love your use of anti-ergonomics, the dark-on-dark themes. Personally we aged frail types prefer a choice of eye-friendly & ear-friendly clarity. ACCESSIBILITY should always be an early default choice, as soon as possible, for every user or every system installer.
Too old & frail myself. Did work with an ISO committee. Ergonomics for all operating systems should be compulsory. So many manufacturers do not yet understand the need for animal rights for humans. We humans want the right to deliberately designed error minimization. The search for novelty & "distinction" has created the opposite to ergonomics. Makulu productions needs more business respectability IMHO.
MakuluLinux LinDoz Offers Windows Comfort Zone, but It’s All Linux Under the Hood
Posted by: Jack M. Germain February 7, 2020 09:00 AMAfter a long delay, a new MakuluLinux LinDoz release is pending last-minute finishing touches and is a week — if not days — away, according to developer Jacque Montague Raymer. The new upgrade is designed to make using Linux easier than ever. Recently, Raymer discussed the trials and tribulations he faced in maintaining and advancing his Linux line of distros. He revealed a process that no doubt is similar to what confronts many software developers who step into the crowded and financially challenging field of Linux operating system creation.
We would release sooner, but we are a small team and we dedicate a lot of time to testing and bug fixing and our releases aren't just standard DE's like most developers lean towards, We do a LOT of custom coding that requires a Lot of time to complete. We also have 10 releases scheduled this year ( it is a big reason why we have been so quiet, its been EXTREMELY hard work to make them ). Lastly, Just because we don't communicate a lot with the outside world, it does not mean we don't like talking, we have a chatroom that has members of the team and myself included online every day, you are always welcome to pop in and have a chat with us, we will gladly engage with you. I wish you luck with which ever distro you try, hopefully one of our distro's in the future will be to your liking. Good day :)
The Asus has a dual boot Win10 and Mint distro. WIn10 runs well and if it handles wWin10 it should be able to handle most distros.
From what I did get to see the distro looks good and I liked what I saw!
Not sure why you also do the Debian version. Appreciate your small & busy team. It shows. Final release has the SOURCE CODE repositories being default access to end users like myself.
You still do not know about GKRELLM (which PCLOS does best of all), GRUB CUSTOMIZER (which no distro can yet do properly).
Love you System Replication program. It should be default for every Linux operating system. Your version of UNETBOOTIN-type should be highlighted more. There is perhaps more then one version of a YUMI-like program for Linux.
Many of your icons & "mood" are lively & young. Refreshing, but a big shock to the serious business world. Young rebels love your use of anti-ergonomics, the dark-on-dark themes. Personally we aged frail types prefer a choice of eye-friendly & ear-friendly clarity. ACCESSIBILITY should always be an early default choice, as soon as possible, for every user or every system installer.
Too old & frail myself. Did work with an ISO committee. Ergonomics for all operating systems should be compulsory. So many manufacturers do not yet understand the need for animal rights for humans. We humans want the right to deliberately designed error minimization. The search for novelty & "distinction" has created the opposite to ergonomics. Makulu productions needs more business respectability IMHO.