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Allen Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After much work a few of us Waikato acorn users have now got armlinux
> up and running so we can see what all the fuss is about (this, in my
> opinion, was no mean task !)
>
> Question is 'now what' ?
>
> What do we do with it ?
IMHO the two areas where Unices really stand out are programming and
networking. As for GUIs, I still prefer RISC OS...
> Where is all the free software ? (anyone got any weblinks ?)
You should subscribe to comp.os.linux.announce for information on the
latest software releases.
Have a look at the directory /gnu or /pub/gnu on many FTP servers for a
lot of programming tools and a few games, e.g. gnuchess. /pub/unix or
similar is also a place to look for software as well as documentation.
Obviously, you'll have to compile all the software yourself. To do this,
you need the Linux kernel sources. Have a look at
<http://www.kernel.org>; unless you want to compile your own kernel,
download the sources of the kernel currently in use.
> What the best 'x-windows' GUI plugin thingy (e.g. KDE,Gnome etc)
> - still not sure of language ;)
A few window managers are supplied with ARMLinux, I use fvwm2.
Currently, the ARMLinux _distribution_ doesn't feature ELF support
(~dynamically linked libraries), and you won't want to build it yourself
if you're new to Linux. This is a problem because many newer programs,
including KDE and Gnome, will be useless without ELF, even if you can
compile them in theory.
AFAIK, there will be a new Debian distribution in a few months (?), I'd
wait for it.
Cheers,
Richard
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