OSNews: Review of Onebase 2004 Linux

“Onebase is still a very new distribution – the first version
appeared only in July 2003, and Onebase 2004 released in early
January 2004 is a major rewrite and enhancement of the original
concept. It started out as a source-based system, but with this
release it embraced binary packages as well, becoming a hybrid. It
is not based on any other major distro or package management
system, instead it prides itself on doing things its own way. These
are still the early days, but this is also what makes it an
interesting distro, and the one to watch.

“Before we proceed to installation, I would like to briefly
describe Olm – Onebase Linux Management. Olm and the assorted
ol-commands are the heart of Onebase. Together they aim to provide
an integrated system for managing many aspects of system
administration, initial setup and dealing with packages. These are
console tools and there are a number of options and one-letter
switches, fortunately the only command one really has to remember
is olm, as invoked by itself it will provide a listing of all
available options…”

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