[..] my shitty hardware :(. [..]
Isn't this your problem? And not the distro?
Well, yes and no. The hardware is fine, more than fine. I've very
happy with my hardware. I call it shitty because i have to patch the
kernal to use it, and this is because the verdors who produced it have
not
Thanks to all those who commented. Now I'm even more confused than before ;-).
Useability (in terms of the underlying package manegement, not the
GUI) and throughness or availabliity of non-often used packages are my
two main requirements. This is because, lets face it, freevo is not
often
On 7/3/06, mike lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to all those who commented.Now I'm even more confused than before ;-).Choosing a distro is like choosing a car, some like brand X, some like brand Y, some want good miles/galon, others want big cars (ie. SUV's)
You can listen to a hundred
Wander-
I find slackware a lot easier to use than Debian, and that is going
all the way back down to the 3.X days of slackware, up till then the
floppies where a nightmare. Even now Debain drives me nuts.
Mike-
I have a pretty complete set of freevo packages for slackware at
On 6/29/06, Evan Hisey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MIke- as to a comment on the slackware side things it is also what I useand happen to have built packages for( they are also do for an updatehere shortly). It works very reliably for me and has very little over
system over head. That would be my one
MIke-
as to a comment on the slackware side things it is also what I use
and happen to have built packages for( they are also do for an update
here shortly). It works very reliably for me and has very little over
system over head. That would be my one worry with ubuntu is system
over head on
I run Slackware on all my Freevo boxes but run Ubuntu on all my Desktop
boexs. I'd suggest Ubuntu to anyone that wants to just wants stuff to
work as quickly and easily as possible and Slackware for people who
want stuff to work consistently and quickly.On 6/7/06, mike lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mike lewis wrote:
Anyone not like ubuntu?
Since you ask.. I don't particularly like it..
the thing I don't like? no pxe installer (readily available)..
Probably no real reason for anyone else to not use it though :P
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Freevo-users
Hi All..
I'm going to rebuild my freevo box (software only, me too poor for new
hardware).
Traditionlly I used Gentoo, but I think it's just oo hard for non-full
time linux ppl like myself to keep up with. I build the base about 3
years ago and have had to rebuild the kernel a number of times
