Linux: October 2004 Archives
I am currently trying to figure the best way to generate assembler code for the ARM microprocessor.
arm-elf is readily available for the windows platform but I am having problems trying to get my hands on the linux version. Any suggestions would be appreciated and can be sent to lnoonan_blog at yahoo.com
My quest for a linux distro has reached an end (for the moment), Sun Java desktop has been binned in favour of Knoppix (www.knoppix.org). Knoppix runs of cd but you can run knoppix-installer under root to install it permanently to the hard drive. Debian lies underneath knoppix but unlike debian it detects all the h/w include the dvd/ cd burner that I have.
The nice thing about having vmware installed on your laptop is that it allows you to play around with various OS's with out losing complete productivity or sanity.
For the past few months Sun Java Desktop has been sitting on my shelf waiting pateintly to be installed. I finally got around to this yesterday. My impressions so far are:
1. It detected all h/w, audio cd burner etc on my dell latitude. After I installed vmware tools the display was rectified.
2. The default install has no devel tools installed so it was necessary to run yast2 to install the extra s/w and patch the updates.
3. Suse Linux runs underneath and is O.K. but coming from debian and redhat I found the package mangement a bit inflexible. I still need to find an alternative fto source for the OS.
4. Star office is nice and works like a dream
Overall this is ideal for the avg corporate user which the intended market. Power users however might find the nice wrapping a bit to prohibitive.
I am currently rebuilding my Linux install on my laptop. I am using Vmware 4.5 which is quiet useful as it allows Linux to run inside my windows environment.
The only problem is that Debian decided not to install a whole raft of multimedia elements. If I had listened to my colleague Eugene Kenny I would have chosen Knoppix instead.
