WizardStan
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Ubuntu On Pandora
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hobbyman II
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for those chanting "Ubuntu Ubuntu!"
might I just point out that even now a lot of skilled people haven`t got Ubuntu working fully with the aspire one, and thats with the same architecture, yes! Ubuntu is loaded with packages and cute ponies, but it`s also a complex beast with a whole metric ton of weird and custom stuff designed to support everything from netbooks to power desktops, you need a LOT of knowledge to prune that lot down to a more sane level for the Pandora, so much so that with that amount of knowledge it would be easier to make a custom distro.
if you must have the inevitable car analogy, its easier to make a sports car from parts than convert a cat D9 into a porsche
edit: gah! read up to page seven then posted, then find my comment invalidated on page 10 (note to self: read full thread before posting)
might I just point out that even now a lot of skilled people haven`t got Ubuntu working fully with the aspire one, and thats with the same architecture, yes! Ubuntu is loaded with packages and cute ponies, but it`s also a complex beast with a whole metric ton of weird and custom stuff designed to support everything from netbooks to power desktops, you need a LOT of knowledge to prune that lot down to a more sane level for the Pandora, so much so that with that amount of knowledge it would be easier to make a custom distro.
if you must have the inevitable car analogy, its easier to make a sports car from parts than convert a cat D9 into a porsche
edit: gah! read up to page seven then posted, then find my comment invalidated on page 10 (note to self: read full thread before posting)
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dflemstr
It's a ball.
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grasshoppir
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complete waste of time imo
kloplop321
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Why did you raise a thread from April, about 7 months ago with a reply that really means nothing anymore?
lulzfish
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What, your post?grasshoppir said:
HA C WUT I DID THUR
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mali
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That's a malicious strategy behind his post. He provokes a wall of nonsense posts following his nonsense post so that the thread gets locked and slips to the bottom of the board.
Muhahaha!
Muhahaha!
dflemstr
It's a ball.
...which it would, anyways. Your theory is invalid.mali said:
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mali
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It's not. It can't be resurrected any more when it's lockeddflemstr said:
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Near_Kstor
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It surely could be RECREATED =X in case this one gets locked
Anyway, on the Chrome OS thread (I THINK), someone posted a link to benchmarks comparing Chrome OS, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and some other "light versions" of linux distros... UNR is the champion in almost every spec, from power consumption to speed on transfers.
I'm definetivelly using Ubuntu on my Pandora, whether as first or secondary OS ( can't just be blind to the point of not considering testing the built-in Ansgtron, which seems good enough). I'm just not sure whether I will be using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix or a compiled/adapted (for Pandora) Ubuntu 9.10 (which I have been testing, and is very nice)
Edit: just typos... my english still far from perfect, and I'm sorry for that =X
Anyway, on the Chrome OS thread (I THINK), someone posted a link to benchmarks comparing Chrome OS, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and some other "light versions" of linux distros... UNR is the champion in almost every spec, from power consumption to speed on transfers.
I'm definetivelly using Ubuntu on my Pandora, whether as first or secondary OS ( can't just be blind to the point of not considering testing the built-in Ansgtron, which seems good enough). I'm just not sure whether I will be using the Ubuntu Netbook Remix or a compiled/adapted (for Pandora) Ubuntu 9.10 (which I have been testing, and is very nice)
Edit: just typos... my english still far from perfect, and I'm sorry for that =X
second exodous
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Wow, I have never seen this thread before and I thought it got up to 8 pages today!
Anyway, Ubuntu on ARM isn't quite there yet, I would give it a few more 6 months, at least wait until 10.4 comes out which is only 5 months away. Gentoo looks like it has the most up to date packages, but Ångström seems to be the most mature.
Other distros I haven't looked into but if I install anything other than Ångström I think I'll try Gentoo just because of the community. You ask a question on the Gentoo forums and it gets a reply in under 30 min. Ask a question on the Ubuntu forums and hope that it gets a answer before getting pushed down to page 3. Ubuntu is just too popular now, too many people using it and on top of that most of the users aren't knowledgeable about Linux in general. Gentoo on the other hand has far fewer users and most of them are very very knowledgeable about Linux. As a bonus after learning to use Gentoo you know more about Linux than 85% of Ubuntu users.
For a system like the Pandora, i.e. non x86, I think going Gentoo in the long run will be better just because it's going to be a learning curve no matter which distro you use.
Anyway, Ubuntu on ARM isn't quite there yet, I would give it a few more 6 months, at least wait until 10.4 comes out which is only 5 months away. Gentoo looks like it has the most up to date packages, but Ångström seems to be the most mature.
Other distros I haven't looked into but if I install anything other than Ångström I think I'll try Gentoo just because of the community. You ask a question on the Gentoo forums and it gets a reply in under 30 min. Ask a question on the Ubuntu forums and hope that it gets a answer before getting pushed down to page 3. Ubuntu is just too popular now, too many people using it and on top of that most of the users aren't knowledgeable about Linux in general. Gentoo on the other hand has far fewer users and most of them are very very knowledgeable about Linux. As a bonus after learning to use Gentoo you know more about Linux than 85% of Ubuntu users.
For a system like the Pandora, i.e. non x86, I think going Gentoo in the long run will be better just because it's going to be a learning curve no matter which distro you use.
