Re: What's the best Linux to use now days?

Great comments.

I'm putting Gentoo on right now!  My main concern was that comedi build 
ok.  It's a "throw away" machine so if it doesn't work out well for some 
reason, I'll probably try something else.


Calin A. Culianu wrote:

>Yeah I second this notion.  It is just about impossible for comedi not to
>compile and install on any real Linux distro.  I could imagine some
>specialty distro that uses unorthodox C libraries or something for custom
>purposes might be tricky to get to work with comedi, but any of the larger
>mainstream distros will certainly work.  Some of the distros, such as
>Debian, even offer comedi packages (so you don't even have to compile a
>thing if you don't want to).
>
>In the end if you get the source off the comedi.org site you will 99.999%
>of the time be able to install it on any recent distro!
>
>The distro is unimporant, basically.... comedi is comedi and linux is
>linux and the two work together well.  :)
>
>-Calin
>
>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Chuck Haines wrote:
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>>i've installed comedi currently on a slack9 machine, however gentoo is a
>>very similar machine adn I would see no reason why it wouldn't work.
>>
>>Chuck
>>
>>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tim Holt wrote:
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>>>I'm assuming in these recommendations you all mean you had no problem
>>>installing and using Comedi, correct?
>>>Chuck Haines wrote:
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>>>>Gentoo
>>>>
>>>>http://www.gentoo.org
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>>>>On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Tim Holt wrote:
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>>>>>I'm about to wipe the old Win98 OS on a notebook and install Linux for
>>>>>use with Comedi.  What do you the members of this list recommend as the
>>>>>best Linux distribution to use?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>Tim Holt
>>>>>Oregon State University, NACSE
>>>>>
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