[fwlug] Getting comfortable with some more distros

[Vern Ceder]

Hi Jon,

I've been experimenting with TinyCore myself - it's very tiny and fast, 
seems to work even on an old Acer tablet. A simple but completely 
different approach to packaging - basically .tgz files are separately 
mounted as overlays.

X -configure runs X, trying various parameters and generating a "sort of 
works" xorg.conf if all goes well.

Vern

Jonathan Bartels wrote:
> Been getting knees deep in some new distros and learning some new
> things recently. Thought you all might be interested.
> 
> I've been running CrunchBang on my old T40 for a while now. Loving it.
> I always felt the multi monitor setting tools were awkward as hell on
> both Linux and Windows. I wanted to watch some TopGear on my laptop on
> my TV so I was forced to learn my way around xrandr. Thats actually a
> pretty neat tool. I also had to run X -reconfigure (I think), can
> anyone tell me what that command actually does under the hood?
> 
> Work has gotten me into a few RedHat variants, I've got a customer
> running RHEL and CentOS is used all over at my employer. I *love* the
> alternatives system, especially since its consistent between RedHat
> and Ubuntu. Under the RedHat systems, do the RPM packages have a
> central repo from the vendor like Ubuntu does? I had to jump through
> some hoops and download an RPM to install some simple things like w3m.
> 

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