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foxytaur (imported) wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2011 12:07 am Since no one can agree to 1 thing we have a multitude of distro's hehe.......

It's either a good or bad thing I suppose.

it's a pain to make up one's mind to choose for noobs and novice users.

hehe......It's also painful for the expirienced.

I still can't find my distro of choice.

But that maybe bc it's fun to be optimistic to find the impossible.

Perfection!!!

Multitude of distros is a really good thing.

Slackware - for those, who want to understand what is going on inside.

Damn Small Linux - for old PCs.

Debian/Ubuntu - for those who are tired of compiling software by hand (and handtracking dependencies in slackware).

Gentoo - probably for those who want to optimise the hell out of their system, and build software their own way.

Alt Linux - it was really good with Russian language support back in the days, when other distributions needed hand patching for this.

and so on....

PS. Regarding embedded programming and assembly - in my 1.5 years of working with embedded systems, I touched assembly code 3 times exactly.

1) When porting NutOS to new architecture.

2) When changing peripherial initialisation in uboot.

2) When optimising code for the wiretapping system for the E1/T1 lines (but that was reading only, to check what the compiler generated).

Processors are getting faster, and in most of the time good optimising C compiler is enough.

I agree with you fhunter, every distro has a different application

And source based distro's are as good as you get in terms of complexion.

With a source based package manager, Portage, one has to compile all software by hand.

It permits for optimization on the fly to squeeze every use out of your hardware.

benefits up to 30% speed efficiency if yer good at it hehe.

My only problem is finding a distro with "closed based hardware" support

And quite often I have to sacrifice the features most other distro's possess.

An obvious example is ATI with their proprietary driver fglrx.

In the laptop world they dominate the GPU architecture and have a tight grip monopoly.

If you ever installed the latest fglrx on Xorg; it will always break it's dependencies unlike nvidia at most times.

ATI using written high level language chunks.Wait...... why are they using bits of dot net framework?

On the other hand, Nvidia with their "Tegra" GPU's are more closely knitted with embedded systems using ARM + ATOM processors.

And if you ever check at their drivers,their code, it's very low level where it most matters.

Desktops are an easy decision in terms of what distro I can use thats compatible with my hardware.(especially if yer building yer own PC from preferred parts)

laptops are a pain choosing a type of Linux sometimes

It's slowly changing however.Ever since AMD purchased ATI they've been releasing more source code but I wouldn't expect this to change the current problems fglrx faces anytime soon with Linux.

Far from it but it's a good start.In mean-time I'm using Nvidia for desktops and enjoying my bleeding-edge experience on a desktop.