Vine Linux 5
Desktop & Apps
In keeping with its name you’ll notice when you boot into the desktop that the icon at the top of your screen is a bunch of grapes. Strangely enough though the wallpaper is more of a flower and less a vine. Or at least that’s how it looked to me. Then again I’m not a botanist so perhaps it’s some sort of Japanese vine or something that happens to spawn large flowers? If you know what it is post your thoughts in the comments section and please enlighten me.
Vine Linux comes with a good range of programs but be sure that you click the Reload icon on Synaptic to refresh your package choices after you install Vine Linux. Otherwise you may miss the latest & greatest stuff that’s been added since the release of Vine Linux 5.
Here’s a sample of some of what comes with Vine Linux 5:
Games
Blackjack
Solitaire
Chess
Mahjongg
Mines
Nibbles
Graphics
GIMP
Geequie
SDvii
Inkscape
gThumb Image Viewer
Internet
gFTP
Pidgin IM
Sylpheed
Thunderbird Community Edition
Transmission BitTorrent Client
xChat
IP Telephoney, VoIP and Video
Firefox
Avahi
Multimedia
Brasero Disc Burner
Cheese Webcam Booth
Movie Player
Rhythmbox
HDSPMixer
Audio CD Extractor
Envy24 Control
Office
evince (document viewer)
Others
Meld Diff Viewer
Leafpad
Emacs23 Editor
Use Synaptic to install OpenOffice since it isn't available during the Vine Linux installation.
(7 votes, average: 2.71 out of 5)
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I enjoyed this distro as well. But I fond some oddities if not irregularities:
In the 64 bit version when I tried to install Abiword, dependencies were missing, couldn’t make spell check work in OpenOffice, and installing multimedia codecs from Synaptic caused these codecs and other files to be downloaded and installed from source. Also, gnomebaker and brasero were wonky.
Hmmm…thanks for the heads up about those problems, Joe. That’s good to know.
I installed Vine 5 on my desktop, and I have to say, I was astonished. Distro is great, fast, I really like the rpm installer, you can install any rpm package via that little proggy, so, I installed OpenOffice 3.1.1 downloaded from Openoffice.org, and I also installed Firefox from mozilla.com site to avoid Japanese preference since the version that comes with Vine is a community edition made to prefer japanese sites and language. Codecs were easy peasy, self-build packages built from source, newest packages, a veru good kernel, everything works great. I think, Vine Linux 5 is somewhere between RHEL 5.3 and Fedora 11. Just were it should be. I recommend it.
The wallpaper are cherry blossoms which are very famous in Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom
=)
Thanks for reviewing something out of the ordinary, Jim. I always enjoy reading about different distributions. I do not try out every single one, and I am going to pass on this one, but I still value the information.
Did you learn any Japanese or any culturalisms along the way? Back in the mid nineties when I was at Digital, I worked with a Japanese employee who was on six month assignment with our Internationalization (I18N) department, where I worked at the time. I had a GREAT time with Toshiki and a number of other team members, as well as visitors from several other countries. A few years later, I ran into Toshiki again, when he was once again on a six month assignment. The years in between had caused me to lose the ability to understand his accent and I could barely understand him, but it sure was good to see him anyway. I enjoy cultural differences very much!
@ Carlo:
Carlo thanks for letting us know what it was. I’m…er…botanically challenged…heh.
@ Brian Masinick:
Brian I took one week of basic, intensive Japanese and promptly fled the class because it was way too hard. Yes, I am a wimp.