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BDwinsAlt · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: Best distro.

Ok, first of all. I want to devolpe asss on linux. I need to know which distro is the best for compiling asss modules. I need to know exactly what I will need to get everything started. I have 4 working pc's here. I want to do a dual boot on my pc. I am currently running windows xp pro. Last time I tried I fucked up my windows partition and lost everything. So I can want know exactly which distro to use and what exactly to do to have the partition right.

Please point me in the right direction.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

http://asss.yi.org/asss/files/devguide.html
http://asss.yi.org/asss/files/userguide.html
http://wiki.minegoboom.com/

Any remotely noncrap distro should suffice.

I recommend Debian, Gentoo, or Slackware.

As for partitioning... all you have to do is remember to leave your Windows partition(s) alone when you're setting up any partitions for Linux. If you messed something up by resizing partitions, I have no advice for you.

Animate Dreams · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

You can use Fedora, it has a graphical installer and should do the partitions on your computer you'll need for you. I'm not experienced with Linux, so if a lot of other have that, I've got no clue, I just know Fedora does.

SuSE · Me measures good Joined: Dec 02 2002 Posts: 2307 Offline

Yeah, Fedora Core's fine as long as you like taking it in the ass from Red Hat.

BDwinsAlt · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:44 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much guys. I appreciate it.

Mine GO BOOM · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject:

I'd recommend Ubuntu over the others, as it currently is the easiest to use and is become very, very well documented. It is built upon Debian and has tons of money backing the project.

Then again, if you want to develop in a Linux environment, Gentoo (don't use their GUI installer, wuss) or Slackware are great distros for those that want a custom environment. But, ASSS already works great under Linux. Why not develop it to work under FreeBSD better?

Since you don't sound like you'll be using the machine heavily, why dual-boot for ASSS only? VMware offers free virtualization. For free. Works great. You can download the player, download a preinstalled image, and get a Linux system up and running in the time it takes to download and extract files. No installing of Linux required. Did I mention it is free?

CypherJF · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject:

I have been using Fedora Core without any problems for personal use. I had managed to hack up, install packages needed for ASSS compiling some time ago, but it took several hours of talking to grel - only because I didn't fully understand the file structure where the external libraries were installed to via yum (ie: mysql, etc).
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