[PD] Distro Doubt

[day 5]

The drivers for ATI are quite well supported under Kanotix and #kanotix 
on IRC is always bustling with activity.

When I first loaded the kanotix liveCD, the only problem was the 
resolution wasn't right but the following necessary modules were there 
and were loaded:

	# color depth
	# wireless modules

which was what I needed to get going with making installation art on Pd 
right away.

All I had to do was edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to set it to the correct 
resolution (literally changing 3 lines) and it was ready to go for the 
HD install I now use.

In short it took less than a week to apt-get all the required 
dependencies to be up and at 'em from the latest CVS of both Pure Data 
and GridFlow. I wouldn't go back to demudi.


./d5

On Feb 17, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Paris Treantafeles wrote:

> Hi d5,
>
> I'm experimenting with distros myself - been running debian for about 
> a month and pretty happy but... can you explain a bit about why you 
> recommend Kanotix for ATI users?
>
> Thanks,
> p
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2006, at 9:49 AM, day 5 wrote:
>
>> Kanotix is superior.
>>
>> I use Kanotix. I wouldn't go back to Ubuntu / Demudi.
>>
>> GridFlow, PDP, pidip, GEM all work magnificently. I would not change 
>> to Ubuntu even if Hoary paid me with a box load of Ubuntu install 
>> CD's.
>>
>> Although one must consider what hardware you are running on; my 
>> synopsis is thus:
>>
>> Nvidia - use Ubuntu / Demudi
>> ATI - use Kanotix
>>
>> see also #kanotix on irc.freenode.net - I reiterate once again, a 
>> truly superior distribution.
>>
>> People tend to use RedHat or Ubuntu only because they "know the 
>> name". Kanotix is the best distro you've never heard of.
>>
>>
>> ./d5
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote:
>>
>>> Le 16 Février 2006 21:03, vincent rioux a écrit :
>>>> Hello Marc,
>>>> could you tell us why you choose Kanotix instead of Knoppix to 
>>>> create
>>>> your custom liveCD/installCD?
>>>
>>> Because it uses Debian unstable. And because there's more goodies.
>>> Kanotix is based on Knoppix. It's a Knoppix on steroids.
>>>
>>>> i once tried with Knoppix and found that it was relatively easy if 
>>>> one
>>>> follows:
>>>> http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto
>>>> but unfortunately did not find much time to go on.
>>>> i also tried Morphix but paradoxically found it slightly more 
>>>> difficult.
>>>
>>> This howto is to modify an image. I had to figure how to remaster a 
>>> HD
>>> install because I needed to update too many packages. It's not easy,
>>> there's still grey zones, but it works.
>>> --
>>> Marc
>>>
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