If you want to do graphics programming at all (OpenGL), get a distribution that has a supported Driver. ATI and Nvidia both support a few different distributions, but not all. The information should be available on those companies' web sites.
Susa 9.2 is what I use when I have to deal with Linux...
Trying Linux
Quote:Original post by _Sigma
Well, as of the time i'm posting this, i'm running Slax of a live CD, and using Konquere or w/e to post this. LOL. Linux is forsure kinda strange, buts its pretty slick!
//edit. Will a live CD boot on a MAC machine and 2, what is the linky for the best c++ compiler?
1. If it's a mac compatible distro it should, just make sure it's for powerpc and not i386
2. I've heard the intel one is supposed to be best but it's not free, g++ has always suited me though.
Quote:Original post by Pipo DeClown
I think FreeBSD looks interesting. Has anyone (who uses Linux) got any experiences?
FreeBSD is very stable, the installation is pretty easy, and installing packages and resolving dependancies is really easy. My 3 gripes with it were though: 1. No easy way to check for updates to packages(this might be different now) 2. 2/3 of the ports I tried to compile were broken. 3. Video card support wasn't as good as linux so my games ran sloowwwlly.
On the plus side I found FreeBSD's sound drivers much more mature than the ones on linux.
Quote:Original post by Pipo DeClown
I think FreeBSD looks interesting. Has anyone (who uses Linux) got any experiences?
FreeBSD is really good; it gives you kind of the BSD feeling of stability and field-tested goodness, and it doesn't sacrifice too much of the cutting-edge desktop software that comes with Linux (FBSD's ports are usually only a few days behind, and even then you can usually rebuild most Linux software for it). For servers, though, I can't think of a better solution than OpenBSD.
another Gentoo lover here aswell, my first experience was with DamnSmallLinux (based on Knoppix), and I quite liked it, so I decided to get hold on SuSE 9.2 and stick it on my desktop machine, didn't like it very much, and a friend suggested Gentoo, took a long while to get it running smoothly, but now that its on here I think i'll be staying with it for a long while. Got it setup to act as a webserver (apache2), and using XFCE as my window manager, much smoother, faster, and even boots up quicker than Windows XP, but there again it only runs what I NEED in the background, nothing else. Incredibly customisable :-)
I think Gentoo has a graphical installer in the making, so that might make it a bit easier for people with little linux experience.
I think Gentoo has a graphical installer in the making, so that might make it a bit easier for people with little linux experience.
Gentoo is not a very friendly distro (it will take days to build from source/install), it has good package management (emerge), but is mostly a waste of time as you don't get that much more performance out of compiling everything yourself.
Quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
Gentoo is not a very friendly distro (it will take days to build from source/install), it has good package management (emerge), but is mostly a waste of time as you don't get that much more performance out of compiling everything yourself.
ill agree i love emerge, but its a pain waiting for things to compile. I'm on an AMD64 so its handy that everything compiles for my platform. I just recently installed gentoo on my laptop...its still installing things....4 days later....
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