Comments on: Hymera Open review

By: HAL

HAL — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:22:43 +0000

Hymeria can be an interesting distro but I HATE the design… I hate 3-D dektops, Compiz, KDE4, plasma,the future Gnome3… I like the default Gnome2 two-panels design. So really, I can’t like this eye-candy crap! I’m sorry.

About LVM and disk encryption, they can be useful for some but not for a ‘normal’ user. Idem for SELinux. Btw, they are rather/often a source of problem for a normal user. But if you’re “the paranoid of the district”… as you want.

If my PC is stolen? Well, and what? I’m not someone who administer one or more Linux servers for the NSA, the Army, the Department of Defense or something like that, neither a server database for a Swiss bank… lol Of course I just must have saved my documents but I have nothing to hide on my PC.

The Surveillance Self-Defense site is interesting but ultra-paranoid! But I’m French and live in France…

By: finid

finid — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:46:39 +0000

Yep, and this review was based on the English version. The issues I drew attention, the localization issues, are supposed to have been fixed in a later release.

By: mi6

mi6 — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:38:03 +0000

AFAIK, there is a Hymera English version:
http://mirror.hymera.it/Hymera-Open-20090910_En.iso

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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:48:39 +0000

[...] Hymera Open review Hymera is a Debian-based, GNU/Linux operating system. It is a relatively brand new distribution developed and maintained by Hymera Engineering S.r.l., an Information Technology outfit based in Milan, Italy. Hymera Engineering publishes four versions of their Linux distribution – Hymera Open, Hymera Desktop, Hymera Evolution, and Hymera Server. This review is of Hymera Open, the free, desktop-oriented version. [...]

By: Bulldog

Bulldog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:55:47 +0000

Hymera has its possibilities to be a great destro but until it’s a full English destro I will stay with Arch and Sidux. One thing that is a must have is, stability. I don’t see it in Hymera at this time. Keep working on the great designs,appearance and an all English destro.

By: -dejv

-dejv — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:27:51 +0000

do you have an asus k8v-x se?

By: MacLone

MacLone — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:27:30 +0000

My PC boots 32 and 64 bit distros.

By: finid

finid — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:41:41 +0000

I'm not in a position to speak for Hymera, but you can be sure that a 64-bit version is in the works. Pardus is in the same position. With regards to the language (localization) problem, a moderator in their forum said that that has been fixed in a newer release.

By: Eddie Wilson

Eddie Wilson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:27:44 +0000

Without 64 bit support the distro is a no go. I can understand a one man project not having both a 32 bit and a 64 bit version but not a company like this. There is no excuse for them not to have one. They also need to get their language problem straightened out. Other than that it seems like a well put together distro.

By: finid

finid — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:19:15 +0000

You can get away with LVM, but disk encryption is a must-have. It’s a very important component of a computer’s security posture. The major distros, that is, the “original” distros (Debian, Fedora, and Mandriva) all have installers with support for disk encryption. You should spend some time at Surveillance Self-Defense.

Meanwhile, ponder this: If your PC is ever stolen, what’s going to be standing between your data and the PC’s new “owners?”

By: finid

finid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:19:23 +0000

I think the "problem" is not with Hymera, but your hardware. Your PC is a 64-bit system, but Hymera is only supported on x68 platforms. Check out the Supported Platforms section at Hymera Open.

By: MacLone

MacLone — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:35:47 +0000

Dowloaded 3 times the first DVD iso a few months ago and never booted the installed system, no matter what i did to solve it. I have downloaded this new version they offer and had exactly the same stupid xorg problems because the extremely lousy harware detection Hymera has.
Every distro i use, even the worst of them boots on my machine but not Hymera.
(Athlon64 3000+, 1GB, FX5600)

By: yehdev_cc

yehdev_cc — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:30:01 +0000

I’d proclaim it a perfect desktop Linux distribution if the installer provided support for setting up LVM and disk encryption, and it came with a graphical firewall client installed and configured.

Good review, however, I don’t agree with the previous sentences. IMO, LVM and partition encryption is not a key feature to a desktop distribution.