Miriam English wrote: > Have you considered Puppy Linux? > :) Kindof appropriate having a Beagle Puppy. heheh > > I've been using Puppy on my machines for some years now and it has come > a long way. The latest, Puppy4.3.1, is the prettiest and easiest to use > so far. The standard distro is tiny -- 100MB in size, and comes with a > lot of stuff built-in, but not python as far as I remember. If you > install the devx file for Puppy4.3.1 you get python and all the > development sources, headers, etc to compile against. Installing pygame > should be simple. It is a long while since I did that though. > > Puppy will boot straight from live CD, loading entirely into RAM and > releasing your CD drive for other uses. Or you can run it from USB > drive. It has some drive-saving features, like caching writes so as not > to shorten the flash drive's life unnecessarily. Or you can install it > on a hard drive and run it like any standard OS (what I usually do). > > Puppy is very fast, with a very small footprint, but I also use it on > one of my machines for running 3D modelling stuff like Blender, sound > editing, etc. It is also the only live Linux distro that I know of that > is able to play almost any multimedia immediately. > > Puppy has some drawbacks, mainly resulting from cutting back on extra > things not often used. Also, in an attempt to be as user-friendly as > possible the user logs in as root. This scares a lot of die-hard Linux > users as a possible security problem, but in practice it is fairly safe, > and it isn't hard set up the default login as a less priveleged user. > > The main site: > http://www.puppylinux.com/ > > The most active forum: > http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/ > > Ibiblio, where the distros and packages are: > ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/ > but you'll want: > ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/ > and the packages (pet files): > ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-4/ > > You can create your own version of Puppy with python and pygame already > in there using "woof" (I'm not kidding, it really is called that). > If you want to create a Puppy specifically for the ARM processor, woof > might do that too. I can't help there as I haven't used woof, but there > are a lot of people in the Puppy forum who I'm sure would be delighted > to help. > > Read about woof here: > http://puppylinux.com/woof/ > > Cheers, > > - Miriam > > [email protected] wrote: >> Hi >> We want to migrate our application to BeagleBoard : >> http://beagleboard.org/ >> >> In your opinion, wich distro would offer best support for Pygame ? >> >> Thank you >> >
Ok, I'll look into it. But I have questions : Beagle doesn't have any HDD, nor CD drive. It runs from SD FLASH. Processor is OMAP from TI (ARM5 I think). Thank Any other people experienced Pygame on Beagle board ? The web site list 5 or 6 linux distro running on Beagle. I can try them all, but I would appreciate to have some input before doing these tasks. Cheers! -- Pierre
