3 May
2007
3 May
'07
9 a.m.
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.
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.
"Working firewire" depends highly on what firewire hardware you are
using, since firewire audio devices don't have the same kind of
standardisation that USB devices do. Check with the FreeBoB people.
As long as you're not planning to distribute the software packages you
build (in which case you have to worry about dependencies and
compatibility), it's pretty easy to build your own packages at least on
DEB and RPM based systems. Just install Checkinstall, and type
'checkinstall' instead of 'make install' when you've built the
software.
It will generate a package file automatically.
--ll