لینوکس Bonzai 3.2 (انگلیسی)(1130 مجموع کلمات موجود در متن) (6185 بار مطالعه شده است)  Bonzai 3.2 : Modern surface on
old structure
Bonsai is the name of Japanese
miniature trees. (I think Bonzai is it's German version!). By the
way, as I like that small trees very much, and also I like debian as
much as I like bonsai, decided to download and test it. I have a
shared dialup connection (!) in my office, so if it wasn't 185MBs, I
could not download that. After spending about five working days to
download, wget finished it's job and now ISO is available in my home
partition. First of all, I checked it's MD5 sum to be sure that
nothing is missing. Great Job! That's OK. I burned it and took it to
home to test. I knew that Bonzai is based on debian woody system that
comes with latest stable KDE desktop.
I have a linux box at home with
following specifications:
CPU : AMD Athlon 1.33GHz
RAM :
256 MB SD-RAM
M/B : Gigabyte 7ZXE
Graphic Card : Geforce 2
MX440 64MB DDR
Sound : Creative Live!
HDD : Western Digital
40GB
CD-ROM : LG 52x
CD-RW : Asus 52x24x52x
Monitor : LG
Flat E700B 17”
I already have Libranet 2.81
installed as main distro and have two other linux partitions at the
end of hard disk those are dedicated to testing new distros.
Everything is ready. I put CD into my LG drive and rebooted machine.
Oh GOD! Isn't this my debian woddy first disk?! I think that's better
to put Bonzai name and beautiful logo at startup. I think that's not
so hard to do!
Bonzai installer uses a 2.4
kernel as default, so you don't need to enter that old bf24 option at
installation boot prompt.
Bonzai 3.2 uses debian woody standard
installer with little hacks. I started installation procedure. First
of all, you see debian 3.0 welcome page, simply press Enter to go
ahead. After that you should choose your keyboard layout.
I can
say that it's installation procedure is 95% the same as debian woody.
Next step is activating a swap space. I had one on my disk (hda6). It
detected it correctly and initialized it successfully.
After that,
you should setup a linux partition as root. I defined my hda9 for
that and then hda10 for home. Then, installation program starts
kernel installation and device driver configuration, similar to
debian standard installation. In the next step you should define host
name, make system bootable (It installs and activates LILO) and do a
reboot to continue installation. Instead of making system bootable, I
created a bootable floppy disk to copy kernel images into my /boot
partition (hda2) manually. I rebooted system into libranet, added
images to boot partition, modified grub configuration file
(/boot/grub/menu.lst) and rebooted again.
Now I can continue
installation. In second step, installer activates MD5 and shadow
passwords and then creates root and a normal user. After that, you
should configure time zone. Then you can see Bonzai staff work!
AppSelect. I think that AppSelect is a hacked version of Tasksel. You
can choose desired packages using it. Only few options are available:
German Environment - German
language support
Shell Applications - a set of shell
applications
Hardware Autodetection - hardware detection
utilities
Magicfilter - application to setup your printer
ISDN
- applications to set up ISDN connections
Samba - access Windows
Shares
KDE - the K Desktop Environment
I choose everything except German environment, ISDN
and Samba. Then, installer tries to detect my hardware and configure
X-Window system.
I preferred to choose manual settings. The final
step is KDM installation. KDM allows you to login into your system
graphically.
Installation is finished now and you can boot into
your Bonzai 3.2 system! You can find a good
installation guide for bonzai at
distrowatch.com,
If you need a more detailed installation instructions.
As total size of system is
very small, you have a fast installation and it takes very short. I
think that Bonzai installation is not so much easier that debian.
They should make it easier.
Fine. I can see KDM and login
into my Bonzai system. It seems that everything is working fine.
That's a very very basic system, w/o development programs and
additional applications. You should install everything you need using
apt. Keep in mind that's only 185MB.
I want to take a screen shot
(I glad that my reviews contain at least one). I can't find
ksnapshot. I have it in my libranet 2.8.1 disks but it's for KDE
3.1.3. I decided to install Gimp from that disks. So I opened a
console window and entered following commands:
# su
# apt-cdrom add
(for disk 1)
# apt-cdrom add (for disk 2)
# apt-get install
gimp
Now I have the Gimp installed.
And this is my screen shot of Bonzai 3.2:
Unfortunately, everything
except KDE (that's 3.1.4) is very old! Xfree86 4.1.0! , kernel
2.4.20(?!) and so. I know that's based on woody, but I prefer a newer
system. I think that Sarge is now stable enough and suggest Bonzai
staff to use it in their next releases. With Bonzai you have a modern
surface on old structure.
I feel that system is a bit slower than
my Libranet. My libranet is equipped with Kernel 2.6.1 and Xfree86
4.3.0.
Why should you choose
Bonzai?
So, why should I choose Bonzai? With Bonzai, you have
a minimal woody system that you can extend it using apt. If you do
not have a fast Internet access, (like me!) you can use it to update
your existing woody systems to KDE 3.1.4 that's a great option. It's
main advantage is small download size that even dialup users can
download it.
If you are an experienced user, you can make a basic
installation and extend it yourself with only needed packages.
How they can make it
better?
Yes. It should be better. As I suggested before, if
they switch to Sarge and you have a modern system with 185MBs size,
it will be very exciting! Many users like to use newer software
packages and not only latest KDE.
Second improvement should be
done in installer system. Debian is porting Red hat's anaconda
installer. If they release new installer soon, Bonzai can benefit
from it so much. With easier installation, more users can install and
use it.
Third that it seems to be a standard debian installation.
I like them to put a small sign of Bonzai in it. For example, I can't
see their logo. You can't find the name of Bonzai! Even a wallpaper!
I think it's necessary.
Forth that it's nice to offer two
editions, a standard 185MBs ISO and a 300MBs ISO (and not more!) that
contains additional software packages like development and other libs
(GCC, GKT+...), Office applications (maybe Koffice) and so on.
Conclusion : Great Idea on
Old Structure
Bonzai Linux is interesting distro. It was much
better if it had new software packages. If you don't have a fast
Internet access to extend your system using apt, or you do not have
woody disks, it can't be a complete functional system. Because many
applications are missing. You cannot expect more from a 185MBs
distro. By the way, I'm waiting for Bonzai Sarge Version!
I'm not a native speaker, So,
please ignore my grammatical errors. ;-) | 
