Re: [LAU] Switching the distro

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Sun May 29 2011 - 14:55:49 EEST

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:04 +0200, rosea.grammostola wrote:
> If you want to build a lot of stuff yourself, Arch Linux and Gentoo
> crosses my mind.

Arch Linux might be interesting, I need to read more or just will test
it. Gentoo, hm? OOTB (is there an 'OOTB'?) without ALSA?
        
        "nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx removed from [extra]
        
        2011-04-15
        
        The nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx driver packages have been
        removed from our repositories as they are incompatible with
        newer xorg servers. This can only be fixed by an upstream
        update, which has not happened yet.
        
        For most video cards, the best alternative should be
        xf86-video-nouveau; see:
        https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau
        
        As lower-grade options, you might also consider xf86-video-nv
        and xf86-video-vesa: simply remove the old nvidia driver(s),
        install these, and the xorg
        server ..." (http://www.archlinux.org/)
        
        On Ubuntu I'm using the proprietary driver and the old FLOSS nv,
        I removed nouveau.
        
        Btw. at startup I'm switching my xorg.conf regarding to the
        kernel by
        
                rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
                case $(uname -r) in
                    *rt*)
                        cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nv /etc/X11/xorg.conf
                        ;;
                    *)
                        cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf.nvidia /etc/X11/xorg.conf
                        ;;
                esac
                
        OTOH I never got 3D acceleration for the integrated ATI
        graphics. So Arch might be not what I'm looking for.
        
        I wonder if they do have something similar to Synaptic?
        https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman
        
        I wish to have something similar to Synaptic, regading to the
        comfort and history.
        
        I wish to have an already stable environment, for Gentoo even
        ALSA isn't set:
        http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/alsa-guide.xml
        Ebuilds, no packages?

Thank you,

Ralf

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