[aklug] Re: Distributions, and a couple liesurely questions

Thank you for the suggestions, I tried Ubuntu 8.10 that I had and it wouldn't work with my ATI. I downwill loaded Linux Mint this morning and installed it a few hours ago and so far it is fabulous. I had glxgears running, listening to MP3's off my NT drive, and browsing the internet with my wireless before I had even installed the OS. Wonderful. I am downloading Jaunty, and might give that a try but so far I have no problems with Mint.

I looked into VirtualBox a little bit and will give that a try if I still have problems with Wine (Currently downloading along with some other packages.) Thankyou for that suggestion, it looks promising.

     - Brian ThunderEagle
     - thundereagle@hotmail.com

> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:10:10 -0800
> Subject: Re: [aklug] Re: Distributions, and a couple liesurely questions
> From: ak.prentice@gmail.com
> To: damien@linuxninjas.tv
> CC: thundereagle@hotmail.com; aklug@aklug.org
>
> Ubuntu is good, as Damien suggests. I'd actually suggest Mint, unless
> you feel like running a little more bleeding edge with Ubuntu Jaunty.
>
> I especially find laptop support to be much better with Mint than
> Ubuntu of the same revision level. With Jaunty rolling out on the
> 26th, this realistically means comparing Ubuntu Jaunty with Mint
> Felicia (based on Intrepid), and while I still think that Mint should
> come out on top this is something you should decide for yourself.
>
> Mint installs with Envy to build the ATI support out of ATI's catalyst
> source code; Ubuntu needs Envy installed seperately to get the same. A
> lot of little things, like wireless and audio, that may require a
> little tweaking in Ubuntu work by default with Mint simply because the
> installer comes with a wider range of device support. Both can do
> Compiz. Both use the same repos. Both can use debs. Mint is Ubuntu
> with a little extra polish.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Damien Hull <damien@linuxninjas.tv> wrote:
> > One word... Ubuntu!=20
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian ThunderEagle" <thundereagle@hotmail.com>
> > To: "AKLUG Mailing List" <aklug@aklug.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:39:19 PM GMT -09:00 Alaska
> > Subject: [aklug] Distributions, and a couple liesurely questions
> >
> > 1) Distributions
> >
> > There are so many these days I don't know what I'm going to get. Right now =
> > I'm using Sabayon and I like it but it doesn't seem to have as much support=
> > as other distros. I'm looking for suggestions on a good distro that can fu=
> > lfill some of my needs.
> > a) Preferably Beryl as a standard option, not a messy add-on after installa=
> > tion
> > b) Driver support for ATI Radeon Mobility, something with known DRI support=
> > for ATI.
> > c) Emulation support in some way for windows such as Wine.
> > d) No clutter, as much as I like Sabayon there is way too much stuff loadin=
> > g from the get go that bogs everything down.
> > e) Fairly good laptop support, It seems that some lesser distros don't like=
> > the hardware in laptops, most notably wireless and audio.
> > I was considering either Suse or more so Ubuntu but would like to hear some=
> > suggestions before I wipe my computer.=20
> >
> > 2) Questions
> >
> > a) DRI and ATI
> > There seems to be a lot of problems with ATI cards and DRI not working prop=
> > erly. Installing the latest driver got rid of my errors stating DRI is not =
> > supported, however I still was unable to run fgl_fglxgears/fgl_glxgears. An=
> > ybody have some success information with DRI and ATI?
> >
> > b) Emulation
> > Is Wine still the leader in this catagory? I have never had much luck with =
> > it and would like to know if anyone else has developed something better tha=
> > t I haven't heard about.
> >
> > c) MonoDevelop (C#)
> > Has anyone by some slim chance come out with something similar to Microsoft=
> > s XNA Framework? I would love to write some games for Linux, and something =
> > similar to XNA would be convenient.
> >
> > d) Games
> > Has anyone played Vendetta or Regnum on Linux? I found them on LinuxGameTom=
> > e and would just like to hear if anyone has played them and how they were.
> >
> > As always I value AKLUGs input and appreciate anyone who can spare the time=
> > to offer advice.
> >
> > - Brian ThunderEagle
> > - thundereagle@hotmail.com
> >
> >
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