[LAU] Shopping for a linux distro

Phil Sexton philsexton at infoave.net
Thu May 3 07:54:40 EDT 2007


Lars Luthman wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 20:34 +1000, danni wrote:
> 
>> Must boot quickly -- Ability to turn off hardware autodetection easily highly 
>> desirable.
>> Must be fairly straight forwards to customise X to run a single app rather 
>> than a window manager.
>> Prefer a realtime kernel out of the box. Must have working firewire by 
>> default.
>> Must be relatively straight forwards to build software on or for and package 
>> it.

Take your pick:
http://distrowatch.com/

> No recommendation, but a few comments;
> 
> It's fairly straightforward to get X to run without a window manager -
> just don't start one! This should work well as long as your single app
> only has a single window. With more than one window, you more or less
> need a window manager.

IIRC all distros include the twm (tiny windows manager) which will give 
you as many xterminals to run as many X apps as you want.

For faster boots, use something like this (noatime)in your /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda6       /               ext3    noatime         1 1
/dev/sda2       /boot           ext2    defaults        1 2
devpts          /dev/pts        devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs           /dev/shm        tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0 0
                 /sys            sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda3       swap            swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hdb1       /home/phil      ext3    noatime         1 2
/dev/hdd1       /backup         ext3    noatime         1 2
/dev/hda3       /pub            ext3    noatime         1 2
/dev/sda5       /mnt/storage    ext3    noatime         1 1
/dev/sda1       /mnt/WinXPHE    ntfs    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1       /mnt/ntfs1      ntfs    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda2       /mnt/ntfs2      ntfs    defaults        0 0

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