It has Guix installed by default, for one thing, and all sorts of handy dandy
tools for newbies who have never used Gnu/Linux before but are intelligent
enough to learn with a bit of hand holding and learn more on their own once
they get a peek at what all they fuss was about and why their mommies are so
stubborn about joining the 21st century and refusing to buy a smartphone like
everybody else's mommy has.
My live DVD is already in a box on it's way to my child, so this is just what
I remember and why the first thing I wanted to do was post my review from it
before even trying it any of my other hardware.
It just wasn't at all what I expected. It was perfect for my target audience
of a well educated intelligent person who has taken a lot of crap IT classes
and thinks she knows more than she actually does. I know one of the Uruk
developers from way back and he speaks my kid's language better than I do.
They're roughly the same age so that's hardly surprising, in spite of their
cultural differences.
I expected the target audience to be a native Arabic speaker who didn't have
much bandwidth and was getting a bit annoyed with the entire concept of the
English language.
I couldn't have been more wrong.
Uruk is still in Alpha, but I feel that Uruk's target user might be slightly
different than Trisquel's target user, but language and politics have nothing
to do with those differences at all. I've been wrong before, lol, but this
fork benefits us all, imnsho.
I don't have a spare hard drive atm; I'll come back when I do and be able to
go into more depth then. I'd love to see my (preteen) minor child take this
one for a test drive and see what happens, but I, being poor, have only my
dreams as William Butler Yeats would say.
Just a not exactly unbiased review. Short version is: I like it. Keep up the
good work, Uruk peeps!
