Topic: What Is Your Fav Distro? (Read 603 times)

desertboy · « **Reply #30 on:** November 11, 2003, 10:34:00 AM »

QUOTE (netscan @ Nov 9 2003, 07:06 AM)

My 2 cents:

Debian = took 2 months, 10-15 broken installs trying to make it install basic Linux programs (missing libraries, laundry list of other things).

Gentoox = 1 day, 1 install and had it doing everything I couldnt get Debian to do. I have been running it for about a month now with no trouble at all.

Many thanks to shallax

Again, just my 2 cents.

If it wasn't for gentoox I wouldn't be using linux, peroid.

liemer · « **Reply #31 on:** November 13, 2003, 08:45:00 AM »

Yea weell gentoox the only thing i dont like is how blurry it is does anyone know how to fix this cause i tried teh thing at gentoox website but it still doesnt work

ShALLaX · « **Reply #32 on:** November 29, 2003, 03:48:00 AM »

Heh, thats not a gentoox problem... even games are that blurry, they get around this by using bigger fonts, etc... The tutorial on my site fixes it up nicely for me :

Potato Bob · « **Reply #33 on:** November 29, 2003, 05:50:00 AM »

Well its pretty obvious now that ShaLLaX's Gentoox is the best

O ShaLLax you might wanna put all the information in one place on your website.

I had some trouble finding some information there

joele · « **Reply #34 on:** November 29, 2003, 03:22:00 PM »

LMAO a polularity contest doesn't decide which is best, newbs should take the time to read up on all the options and try as many as possible (just like deciding on a distribution for PC)

Anyway seriously ATM I am leaning towards Xebian as I am a long time debian user on PC (tried many others including gentoo, slackware, manrape, redshat, the list goes on) and I just prefer debian.

Now for the XBOX the reason I am using debian is on the GentooX page it says for focus chips (I have a 1,4 xbox) Gentoox only supports resolution up to 640x480 but on the last two version of Xebain (0.5, 1.0) 800x600 has worked fine on my XBOX!

EDIT: The other reason I guess I went for debain over gentoo on Xbox is as I said I use debain (sid) on PC and am used to that!

This post has been edited by joele: Nov 29 2003, 11:24 PM

Potato Bob · « **Reply #35 on:** November 29, 2003, 07:29:00 PM »

Well the distros on xbox is different from pc

But hell its fun to mess wit. Ecept for the thing that I keep doin stupid things in xbox linux lately.

I hate it broke 3 times today

and currently updateing to new kernel

but wtf i cant connect to install new programs

like emerge amsn

or emerge -u world

Xbox root # emerge amsn
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 2) dev-tcltk/tls-1.4.1 to /
>>> Downloading ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo///dist...ls1.4.1-src.tar.
gz
--05:24:04-- ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/distfi....4.1-src.tar.gz
=> `/usr/portage/distfiles/tls1.4.1-src.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.easynet.nl... done.
Connecting to ftp.easynet.nl[195.86.128.57]:21...

and sits there. Then retries

If it's pernamently down then how do i switch to a different thing and which one

joele · « **Reply #36 on:** November 29, 2003, 10:30:00 PM »

QUOTE (Potato Bob @ Nov 30 2003, 05:29 AM)

Well the distros on xbox is different from pc

Why? Xebian is based on Debain and GentooX is based on Gentoo!!!

Potato Bob · « **Reply #37 on:** November 29, 2003, 09:35:00 PM »

Well its based on it but when u use eash distro on xbox its pretty different than on pc

ShALLaX · « **Reply #38 on:** November 30, 2003, 01:00:00 PM »

What the hell are you talking about? The Focus drivers ONLY support 640x480. I'm using an even newer set of drivers than the Xebian beta - I go by what the xbox-linux team publicises and they say only 640x480 works.. the code for 800x600 doesnt even exist... so either you dont have a 1.4/1.5 xbox.. or something strange is happening.

Btw, the easynet mirror is down, run "mirrorselect -a -s4 -D" and it will find you a bunch of new mirrors... i had to recompile 307 packages with it trying that mirror 10 times for each package (takes about 15 mins until it moves onto the next mirror)...

joele · « **Reply #39 on:** November 30, 2003, 02:22:00 PM »

OK I'm confused then, the guy here I purchased it off (I have purchased a few pre-modded boxes off him, for myself and friends) told me it is definately a 1.4 box!

We are both talking about changing X-Windows to 800-600 yeah? In which case I don't know what to say other than I will pull it apart in the next couple of days and check what chip is in it!

This post has been edited by joele on Nov 30 2003, 11:21 PM

Potato Bob · « **Reply #40 on:** November 30, 2003, 01:32:00 PM »

QUOTE

Btw, the easynet mirror is down, run "mirrorselect -a -s4 -D" and it will find you a bunch of new mirrors... i had to recompile 307 packages with it trying that mirror 10 times for each package (takes about 15 mins until it moves onto the next mirror)...

ya i kinda learned that yesterday

Potato Bob · « **Reply #41 on:** November 30, 2003, 01:35:00 PM »

Hmm well dont listen to the guy, alot of ppl say that but it sometimes is different

so you might just wanna check

joele · « **Reply #42 on:** November 30, 2003, 01:51:00 PM »

I don't know what would be in it for him though as I told him I would prefer 1.3

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