On Sunday 16 Apr 2006 18:21, Arnulf J. Pelzer wrote:
> Moin,
> on ftp://ftp.yoper.com is the tree of yoper
> the messageis only on
> http://ftp.yoper.com.
> greets


Further update on this - 
http://www.yoper.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7599&pid=43003&st=0&#entry43003
is a post on the forum about the message from Andreas. That relates 
specifically to the Distrowatch site message - 
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060417#1

The message says - 
" A sick joke or an attempt to back stab the Yoper project by its own founder? 
Only Andreas Girardet will know for sure - that's after the visitors of the 
Yoper FTP server were suddenly greeted with the following message last 
weekend: "Hello Linux enthusiasts! Good Bye Yoper! If you need a distro, then 
go to my favourite open source project called openSUSE and a project called 
SLICK, a light-weight KDE desktop with apt integration and Con Kolivas 
patched kernel. ISOs for SLICK are currently only on BitTorrent as this FTP 
server is down for maintenance. Andreas Girardet." Girardet, a talented 
developer and Linux advocate from New Zealand, is the original founder and 
developer of Yoper Linux, but he has since left the project as he accepted 
employment from IBM and Novell. Yoper Linux is currently being maintained as 
a community distribution by a small group of volunteer coders. On a related 
note, Girardet's opinions on Linux were recently exposed in Australia's 
ITWire site."



At first I assumed this was some left over from when Andreas left. It may well 
be - but as Distrowatch have picked it up, we need to clarify what the hell 
is going on. Adverse publicity is not something we need really.
That is now public on Distrowatch - a popular site with Linux users.

Mark
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