Hi Jon,
I've been experimenting with TinyCore myself - it's very tiny and fast,
seems to work even on an old Acer tablet. A simple but completely
different approach to packaging - basically .tgz files are separately
mounted as overlays.
X -configure runs X, trying various parameters and generating a "sort of
works" xorg.conf if all goes well.
Vern
Jonathan Bartels wrote:
Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new
things recently. Thought you all might be interested.
I've been running CrunchBang on my old T40 for a while now. Loving it.
I always felt the multi monitor setting tools were awkward as hell on
both Linux and Windows. I wanted to watch some TopGear on my laptop on
my TV so I was forced to learn my way around xrandr. Thats actually a
pretty neat tool. I also had to run X -reconfigure (I think), can
anyone tell me what that command actually does under the hood?
Work has gotten me into a few RedHat variants, I've got a customer
running RHEL and CentOS is used all over at my employer. I *love* the
alternatives system, especially since its consistent between RedHat
and Ubuntu. Under the RedHat systems, do the RPM packages have a
central repo from the vendor like Ubuntu does? I had to jump through
some hoops and download an RPM to install some simple things like w3m.
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This time for sure!
-Bullwinkle J. Moose
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Vern Ceder, Director of Technology
Canterbury School, 3210 Smith Road, Ft Wayne, IN 46804
[email protected]; 260-436-0746; FAX: 260-436-5137
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