Re: [LAU] Shopping for a linux distro

Lars Luthman wrote:
> 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.

Take your pick:
http://distrowatch.com/

> 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.

IIRC all distros include the twm (tiny windows manager) which will give
you as many xterminals to run as many X apps as you want.

For faster boots, use something like this (noatime)in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/sda2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
                 /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /home/phil ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdd1 /backup ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 /pub ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/sda5 /mnt/storage ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/WinXPHE ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs defaults 0 0

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