Re: [LAU] Shopping for a linux distro

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 20:34 +1000, danni wrote:

> Must boot quickly -- Ability to turn off hardware autodetection easily highly
> desirable.
> Must be fairly straight forwards to customise X to run a single app rather
> than a window manager.
> Prefer a realtime kernel out of the box. Must have working firewire by
> default.
> Must be relatively straight forwards to build software on or for and package
> it.

No recommendation, but a few comments;

It's fairly straightforward to get X to run without a window manager -
just don't start one! This should work well as long as your single app
only has a single window. With more than one window, you more or less
need a window manager.

"Working firewire" depends highly on what firewire hardware you are
using, since firewire audio devices don't have the same kind of
standardisation that USB devices do. Check with the FreeBoB people.

As long as you're not planning to distribute the software packages you
build (in which case you have to worry about dependencies and
compatibility), it's pretty easy to build your own packages at least on
DEB and RPM based systems. Just install Checkinstall, and type
'checkinstall' instead of 'make install' when you've built the software.
It will generate a package file automatically.

--ll

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