Text 12890, 68 rader
Skriven 2009-07-06 16:58:31 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
  Kommentar till text 12888 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
Ärende: don't you listen to none of them jive hip squares
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Hello Maurice.

05 Jul 09 15:24, you wrote to me:

 >> will see how that one behaves

 MK> What is the other one based on?  Perhaps FreeBSD has gotten as anal
 MK> about chipsets as some of the other distributions.  I recall having
 MK> troubles with many distro's, many of them Linux's, wrt chipsets and
 MK> booting their kernels but often could find a workaround.

It is a all Intel board, the current one is a VIA board, I am no longer in the 
mood to work around other peoples stupidity ... , I battle enough with my own 
:-), so I have no need of theirs .. :-))

 >> A full Debian is now 4 & 1/2 DVD's

 MK> Huh?!?!?!?!  That is insane.  I've had a theory that MS types have
 MK> taken over Debian and this makes me even more suspicious of them.
 MK> That and their silliness over the glibc development.  Sure am glad I
 MK> never got suckered into thinking they had anything worth pursuing.

If there is a Linux package that fits their lisence, and runs on Linux they 
include it, I still prefer Debian to Ubuntu, but they are some of the few 
folks still using a single CD for their distro, you can get a DVD version if 
you have bandwidth to waste, and bandwidth is something I don't have to waste.

 MK> Speaking of pursuing, my latest pure 64 bit build with gcc and
 MK> friends, xorg too, is hovering around 600M fully bloated.  Threw in
 MK> some extra AV libs and utils - mostly audio - and still can't fill a
 MK> whole CD nevermind a DVD.  Also replicated most of it on Paul's eeepc
 MK> so I know it can work on 32 bit systems.  However I didn't bother with
 MK> everything on there as it tops out at 900MHz so some of the audio apps
 MK> would struggle on there creating heavy duty multichannel, high
 MK> samplerate audio files as well as (m)encoding anything in real time.
 MK> Should be able to play them but creation is highly doubtful.  I also
 MK> want to check out a digital camera thingy (gtk based) on there but am
 MK> not quite there yet.  Very soon.

 MK> Life is good,

Life would be good, if I could lay my paws on a distro like that, well, to 
start with, I don't need X, can add that later, as and when needed.

What I'd like ideally would be a distro, that would install and be bootable, 
with the minimum needed to compile anything else, and get on the internet so I 
could get the source code I require to add what I want, and Gentoo is not the 
answer ..., it has it's own problems ...

Was a time, when I could do a minimal Debian install in 80 megabytes, then 
start adding the bits I wanted and top out around 480 megabytes ...

apt-get is nice because it would get the things I needed, and if I forgot 
something that I needed, would fix that as well ... , but if the last bit of 
playing is anything to go by, dependancies have increase somewhat :-((

That is what I like about FreeBSD ports, you can check the dependencies 
beforehand, make any sensible changes with regard to dependancies then 
download the source, compile, and install the result.

And what is driving this, is hi-res music ... , i.e. I want to build a music 
server that can play/support AIFF, WAV, and FLAC up to at least 24bit 192MHz 
sampling rate, and possibly beyond without tomuch extra effort.

Russell

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