Ubuntu is easy and has a lot of packages.
Arch is good if you want a lot of control over your system. This is what I currently use.
Fedora is good for ENTERPRISE systems.
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Anonymous2008-04-16 7:42
i prefer freebsd, but lately i've been using kubuntu 8.10 beta with kde 4, booting from an 8gb microsd card with a usb microsd reader.
oh, and i have a small fat32 partition as the first partition on the card with qemu for windows in folder called qemu-win and qemu for x86 linux in a folder called qemu-lin and these files:
autorun.inf: [AutoRun]
shell=boot
shell\boot=boot in qemu
shell\boot\command=boot.cmd
boot.cmd: @echo off
for %%d in (.) do getdrv.exe %%~dd
source for getdrv.exe: using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Diagnostics;
class getdrvnum{
public static int Main(string[] args){
DriveInfo[] allDrives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
int drivenum=0;
foreach(DriveInfo d in allDrives){
if(d.Name.TrimEnd('\\').Equals(args[0])){
ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName="bootdrv.cmd";
psi.Arguments=drivenum.ToString();
Process.Start(psi);
return 0;
}
if(!d.DriveType.ToString().Equals("CDRom"))
++drivenum;
}
Console.WriteLine("Couldn't find {0}",args[0]);
return -1;
}
}
bootdrv.cmd: @echo off
start /min qemu-win\qemu.exe -L qemu-win \\\\.\\PhysicalDrive%1
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Anonymous2008-04-16 11:37
>>40
You must be thinking of Gentoo. You can go from nothing to a fully functional Arch install in about 20 minutes.
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Anonymous2008-04-16 18:37
GNU/Linux is for fags.
Use Windows or BSD.
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Anonymous2008-04-16 18:54
>>42
PROTIP: Prebuilt Gentoo distros, ready to compile smaller programs than the desktop environments, OO.O, Linux and GNU.
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Anonymous2008-04-16 19:06
I use Zenwalk. It's based on Slackware, it's small, slim, sexy, very fast and comes with almost everything I need out of the box, while not being bloated.
>>40
Hours? Following the guide, it takes only about an hour or *maybe* two to get things working. What takes longer is remembering all the programs and packages you need.
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Anonymous2008-04-16 23:36
Another archer in here.
>>1
I tried fedora before, I don't know why, but ignoring the bloat and other crap (the forced indentation of yum, distro over), it tends to be buggy, and lacks reiserfs support completely.
Ubanto makes you think that you always need to make everything the easiest and most intuitive way. Ergo, it makes you stupid.
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