On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:44:27PM -0600, Davide Bruzzone wrote:
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> I was wondering if anyone has any views on this. Since Familiar is based
> on/is ARM Linux, which, in turn, is based on Debian (is this statement
> correct?), does using Debian on the desktop (as opposed to, say, Red Hat)
Familiar shares quite a bit with Debian/ARM, be it mentality, and/or binaries.
At this point we're pretty much taking what works, and rolling our own
for what doesn't. Moving forward, I'm going to be doing a lot more optimized
builds for the SA-1110, instead of relying on Debian's ARMv3 builds.
As far as a desktop box, your best bet is to go with what you like. I
use Debian as a Linux distribution because it lets me easily get packages
installed and kept up to date. Depending on what you're developing, you
could get the same environment up on RedHat or whatever else (nothing
stopping you from developing on BSDs either). The biggest requirement
is that you have a recent build of X.
Alexander
Received on Sun Jun 10 16:18:33 2001
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