Hello Folks, arriving late on the thread.
I used many linux distros till I finally settled on OpenSUSE 11.2. I find Ubuntu very charming and used it from Gusty Gibbon till Karmic Koala (can't remember version numbers but I love those silly names, was waiting for hungry hippo), it was fun to use and it was the first Gnome desktop that I could actually understand, me being a KDE person from the start. What moved me away from ubuntu was the mess that is sound under linux, it is a hit or miss, or it works or you're in very murky waters. PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS, they are all crap and conflict with each other. Video cards are also cumbersome, my PC has an onboard intel chipset that till today is not well supported. When I tried openSUSE, it just worked out of the box both video and sound. It was more polished than ubuntu for me, I really liked their gnome theme. It was somewhat a struggle to move from apt to zypper but they work basically the same, the package names change though and that is the hard part. Revolution works well on OpenSUSE and with that in mind, I decided that SUSE was the way to go for me. Now on the topic of creating our own distro, I did that! I created "Andre SUSE Distro" using Suse Studio service. Suse Studio is the most awesome and elegant web service I ever seen. It basically allow you to choose from multiple packages and everything, to configure all you want and then it will build you an ISO or a VMWare image. You can even try your system online thru a web VNC session, you don't even need to install it at home. Using this system I created an almost barebones version of suse that would pack RevEnterprise and RevWeb (that old alpha one). I haven't told anyone about it because it packs RevEnterprise with my license, I made this system basically for my own consumption, it allows me to move from bare bones pc to fully configured and ready linux with a single DVD. http://susestudio.com/ If people here are so inclined, I can try to build a simple suse that would bundle Rev without a license (so you would need to put a license on first run) and some useful tools. You could run it as a virtual machine under vmware or virtualbox and thus test your software under linux without the need to a full linux hardware. :D Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
