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Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: ant on July 27, 2006, 11:32:39 am
What distro would you suggest today for developing?

I use Gentoo in my office since 4 years and am very happy with it.
What terrify me is the recompiling time of the graphical environment ... not required on a production server...

What about the latest OpenSuse 10.X ? I had a complete desktop distro in a few clics...but don't know about development.

Some lights?
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: Mickeyl on July 27, 2006, 01:14:56 pm
Using Mandriva since co-founding OE. I regularly try alternatives but always come back.
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: InSearchOf on July 27, 2006, 01:29:38 pm
I use Fedora 4/5... works fine for me... plus all the require packages are easily installable but using the livna repo's.....

Late
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: ant on July 27, 2006, 02:00:29 pm
Thx guys

Now just let see whether Mandriva and Fedora have a recent lilo...you know, /boot will start on the 100th GB of my disk...
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: ant on August 17, 2006, 04:06:33 am
Upgrade:

Finally I installed ArkLinux.

The 2006.1 release is very neat and I have to say that installing bitbake 1.4.2 and monotone 0.28 was really quick 'n easy.
No missing deps, no problems at all! All done in 20 min.

Cheers

Ant
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: Hrw on August 17, 2006, 06:27:50 am
Debian 'sid' forever (my first and only Linux distro)
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: ant on August 17, 2006, 08:30:34 am
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Debian 'sid' forever (my first and only Linux distro)
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IMHO nothing compares to Gentoo..."Linux from scratch" perhaps...
Portage is simply amazing!

Ant
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: zen on September 01, 2006, 02:53:58 pm
Both Debian and Ubuntu are just great. apt/dpkg is as powerfull as portage (yes, you can even compile your own Debian), choice of packages is unbelievable.
I was using Debian for several years, still using it on servers, but I switched to Kubuntu on desktop. I'm at the stage when you don't really have time to make your favourite mail program running, and on Kubuntu everything just works.
Yes, I know, I'm lazy
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: ant on September 15, 2006, 09:01:37 am
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... and on Kubuntu everything just works.
Yes, I know, I'm lazy
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Doesn't the latest Kubuntu use GCC4.x ?

I have enough problem with GCC4.x in Arklinux...
Gentoo 2006.1 also defaults to GCC 4.x ...

Unfortunately the status of "GCC 4.1 vs. OE" patches is (to me) unclear...

Ant
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: Hrw on September 15, 2006, 11:56:06 am
gcc 4.1 as default on host is OK as long you have gcc-3.4 or gcc-3.3 or gcc32 in PATH somewhere installed.

This is because we use QEmu to generate locale packages during build and it need gcc 3.x to build.
Title: Best Distro For Bitbake/oe
Post by: zen on September 15, 2006, 12:05:23 pm
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gcc 4.1 as default on host is OK as long you have gcc-3.4 or gcc-3.3 or gcc32 in PATH somewhere installed.

This is because we use QEmu to generate locale packages during build and it need gcc 3.x to build.
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Yes, and tlaking back about Ubuntu, you've got several gcc packages. You can switch between them using alternatives mechnism.