IntelMiner
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Since Im getting sick of Ubuntu every single day, I -hate- Debian, RHEL makes me want to strangle puppies, Im now down to either Arch Linux or Gentoo!
Both are minimalistic distros, the main difference between the two I can see are
> Arch uses Binaries
> Gentoo uses source
Source packages arent a real issue for me, since Ive got a total of 10 processing cores available (8 of which run at 4Ghz) so really, what are the fundamental differences between the two?
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paulguy
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Kinda odd that you'd join a ROM hacking forum just to ask about a preferred linux, but OK.
I personally use Gentoo, which is nice. The USE flags allow me to customize features and allow me to not have to install a ton of crap I don't need or want, most of the time. And of course, you could be a CFLAG ricer, but yeah, I don't really bother with that, anyway.
I never used arch, but I hear it's good. I can't really say what makes it good, though.
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IntelMiner
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Yeah, that Hydrapheetz guy prodded me into joining, claiming its a general forum not 'just' rom hacking :B apologies if its an irrelevant question
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{BFG} Zareth: Shaun High Speed internet and Virus Protection
(TAF) Shaun 'intel' Miner:
{BFG} Zareth: I couldnt help but like
{BFG} Zareth: get up and scream, then come tell you D:
{BFG} Zareth: and the tagline was like
{BFG} Zareth: After all, its what Shaun would do.
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I'm running Dreamlinux on a Pentium II 433, and I have to say... Xfce really does run great on that dinosaur of a machine (with 256 MB of RAM... with the 64 it used to have, it probably wouldn't have run very well at all).
Prior to that, I had Crunchbang, which gave me a bit of trouble as my attempted triple-boot system fucked up and I could only boot into 98SE and Linux (not 2000)... but still, I really liked this distro. =D
I decided to try to fix the 2000, but I bricked the partition table in the process... destroying all of the data on the drive (lucky I backed up the 98SE stuff), and I decided to do away with 2000, as it was giving me the most trouble of the three OSes. (98SE runs better on that machine anyway, at least from what I've experienced...)
Now I'm dualbooting 98SE and Dreamlinux, but Dreamlinux seems to be having trouble recognizing my ancient soundcard (a SoundBlaster 64 PCI from 1998... 98SE and 2000 recognized it fine, but both Crunchbang and Dreamlinux had problems with it...) =P ____________________ YouTube • DeviantArt
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IntelMiner
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(Im probably going to get flamed to hell and back over it, but whatever )
I hate Debian because well, it just doesnt WORK as a Desktop distro, first time I ever tried getting it set up GRUB would refuse to see the partition, despite it being a standard EXT3 partition (tried all three 'variants' of it, Stable through Unstable) and when I finally got around to using it, I saw that well, it really just wasnt that great, if it wasnt a driver issue this, it was its blinding near -requirement- of everything being opensource, consequently I just use its 'sibling' Ubuntu for the most part, little more bloated, a lot more user friendly =/
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{BFG} Zareth: I have saw the most awesome commercial ever
{BFG} Zareth: Shaun High Speed internet and Virus Protection
(TAF) Shaun 'intel' Miner:
{BFG} Zareth: I couldnt help but like
{BFG} Zareth: get up and scream, then come tell you D:
{BFG} Zareth: and the tagline was like
{BFG} Zareth: After all, its what Shaun would do.
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I run gentoo as my work laptop. I'm happy with it. I like the control of installing only the components I will actually use. Still haven't figured out how to filter a few more things out of gentoo (i.e. localization) but it is nice not to have to install something that I won't ever use. However, it is a pain at times to get certain things to work (i still haven't figured out how to get IME to work, and hibernation) but the documentation is out there.
Gentoo's biggest drawback to many people is that it does take forever to update your software since you must compile it yourself. However, chances are if you optimize the each of the software to the hardware you are running, then it surely will be worth the time? |
