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Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: aig on April 17, 2004, 09:35:01 pm

Hi,

I am throwing together a new computer to experiement with/learn about OpenEmbedded and general Zaurus software development.  Do you have any recommendations for a Linux distro to work with?  From what I\'ve read, OE will work with any Linux distro, but I\'d like to see what everyone else has found to be a good fit.  I\'d really like to take the plunge.  Thanks and take care.

~AIG

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: VeeDubb on April 17, 2004, 11:56:33 pm

If you realy want to learn about linux as you do it, you could try Linux from scratch.  Basicaly, you build your own distro.  By the time you finish you\'re either done with linux for ever or a linux God.

If you want the easiest to set up, I\'d have to say Mandrake.  It\'s what i use at home, (I\'m using it right now in fact) and it\'s pretty good. |they just released the final Official version of Mandrake 10 and it\'s got some great new features.

last is Good old slackware.  If you want one that is as \"no-nonsense\" as it gets, slackware\'s the way to go IMHO

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: treke on April 18, 2004, 12:10:51 am

Use Debian. It\'s the least likely to have problems with OpenEmbedded. Mandrake is probably also fairly reliable.

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: lpotter on April 18, 2004, 01:59:19 am

I use it on debian (knoppix), suse9, and gentoo.

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: Mickeyl on April 18, 2004, 06:29:51 am

anything non-readhat should do. We had some problems with red-had based distro\'s in the past. SuSE, Mandrake, Debian Gentoo are known to work.

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: vishnja on April 18, 2004, 09:00:58 am

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If you realy want to learn about linux as you do it, you could try Linux from scratch.  Basicaly, you build your own distro.  By the time you finish you\'re either done with linux for ever or a linux God.

I don\'t agree. Building LFS just takes a lot of your time and you could learn much more in that time with another distro and a good book (many are free downloadable).

If you want to learn something (mainly from the docu\'s) AND actually use the system quickly and on longer term, I\'d recommend Gentoo. But this opinion is biased as it is my current distro. Actually any distro will do.

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: ScottYelich on April 18, 2004, 09:59:17 am

I recommend vmware (I recommended virtual pc until ms bought it)

under vmware, run debian, etc.  You could try different distros quite easily to see which works
best for you.

Scott

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: lardman on April 18, 2004, 10:01:35 am

I think we\'re getting away from the point which was to work out which distros work with OE.

I use Mandrake it works fine afaict.

Si

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: Netmonger on April 21, 2004, 11:19:25 pm

has anyone actually gotten the cross compiler working on gentoo?

Title: What Linux distro do you recommend for an OE build system?
Post by: treke on April 22, 2004, 12:10:57 am

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has anyone actually gotten the cross compiler working on gentoo?

I did a couple of builds on gentoo