A bit of a Linux journey (Dave's distro-hopping redux)

[Jay Vaughan]

> I've had it do the instant jam, no fuss thing too.  For that it's  
> really good,
> but music on Linux isn't my priority just yet.
>

ah i see, then naturally you'd fair better if you roll your own...


> It also borked it's grub.conf several times somehow

definitely weird.

> Finally, there's this annoying bug where the desktop settings often  
> aren't
> loaded (something about gnome settings daemon failing, I can't  
> remember
> what), which I've seen attributed to something to do with the realtime
> kernel.


yeah you've gotta add a sleep(3) in /etc/init.d/gdm after the gnome- 
settings daemon is fired up - this is a known issue, i had this  
problem for about 30 seconds too, and then i fixed it for good ..

> I'm pretty sure that PREEMPT in there means it's got realtime  
> capabilities (?)
> but if not, I know the realtime kernels are definitely available on  
> Sidux
> through the standard Sid repositories.
>


it means the kernel features PREEMPTability, but whether your apps  
and system are using it properly are another story ..
>

> It's pretty good, but my feeling is that the amount of time I had  
> to spend
> fixing stuff on it didn't make it feel like a Ubuntu distro.  If  
> I'm going to
> have to fix stuff, then I might as well have a bit more raw power  
> (with more
> options and edgyness) to play with in the first place.
>

fair enough.

>
>
> You should check Sidux sometime though dude - I reckon you might  
> like it.
>


yeah, but to be honest, i do too much work on linux these days (just  
finished adding tolapai gigabit ethernet features to grub, for  
example, and am now doing a back-port of the same driver to linux-2.6  
and chorus, of all freakin' things), so ermm .. i'm a bit over the  
whole distro-chasing thing, which is actually why i'm interested in  
your experiences .. ;)

;
--
Jay Vaughan