It would be a very one-sided debate, anyway!xolotl wrote:Let's not get this thread derailed with an open-vs-closed debate, yeah? There are better forums than this one for it, and like it or not, Eschalon is closed. (Though I admit that I inadvertantly played a hand in the derailing by making a jibe and the complexity of Linux development.)
I'm a Slackware guy myself, and an ex-software engineer (embedded Linux, working at the system level, including kernel and drivers). I'm going to have to look into this RAM disk-as-swap business to satisfy my own curiosity. I want to know why they feel the need to use such an apparently broken setup. There might be a reason I don't know, but I've never seen anything that might be solved by a RAM disk swap drive. No need to explain, I intend to figure this out for myself.Tyranthraxus wrote:Jeff, unfortunately, that is how most Live CDs work, and there are reasons why they have to work that way. Admittedly, Canonical made a pigs ear of the setup, but their own ethos has led them down this road.
Debian is excellent, I use it for my servers. It's a good set-it-and-forget-it distro (which is what I want in a server). Slackware is highly tunable and assumes you'll be doing your own compiling (which I do all the time, Slackware doesn't come with E16 precompiled, and there are some important options I want turned off that a distro would likely turn on to make a more general package).For the record, my preferences would be Debian stable for its stability and unbreakability, or Mandriva for its simplicity.
If the recompilation goes the way I hope it will, I`d be fascinated if I could run it under Damn Small Linux, using only 45 Mb of disk space, or even a Ram Disk!
).I've used them in the past. Since I'm on a how-do-Live-CDs-work bender at the moment, I downloaded them. After a quick boot with qemu, Knoppix runs with no swap at all (I checked the boot scripts, it will only turn on swaps listed in /etc/fstab, and there never are any, certainly not any RAM disks).Elwro wrote:For distro designed to work as a Live CD (or DVD), I'd recommend Knoppix.
Yep, Knoppix was my 1st port of call as well, perhaps Klaus should give Canonical some pointers on Live CDs?Elwro wrote:On the other hand, even the newest Knoppix has the 2.10.2 version of glibc.
Aaah, you youngsters have it easy!
I'm a Slackware guy myself, and an ex-software engineer (embedded Linux, working at the system level, including kernel and drivers). I'm going to have to look into this RAM disk-as-swap business to satisfy my own curiosity. I want to know why they feel the need to use such an apparently broken setup. There might be a reason I don't know, but I've never seen anything that might be solved by a RAM disk swap drive. No need to explain, I intend to figure this out for myself.
Love Slackware, just don`t find enough time to get under the bonnet these days. Otherwise, I`d probably be trying to shoe-horn Book II into a Hurd setup, just to see if it could be done.Debian is excellent, I use it for my servers. It's a good set-it-and-forget-it distro (which is what I want in a server). Slackware is highly tunable and assumes you'll be doing your own compiling (which I do all the time, Slackware doesn't come with E16 precompiled, and there are some important options I want turned off that a distro would likely turn on to make a more general package).
I second that thought.Oh, and if it wasn't clear, Basilisk Wrangler, thank you for supporting Linux. Despite my personal opinion about Ubuntu, it means I should be able to get the game working on my system (which is my problem, and always has been, since trying to please me first is crazy
Yeah, I'm a youngster by those standards. I got my start with QBASIC on MSDOS when I was 9 in the early 90s. 2400 baud is the slowest modems I remember. (Old hackers are now thinking: yup, whippersnapper. Late millenials are going, sweet Mother of God, how did you survive with such a connection!?)Tyranthraxus wrote:
Aaah, you youngsters have it easy!
Get your hands really dirty, with punched tape, cards, and unscrewing thermionic valves.
Awesome. GNU/HURD: OS of the FUTURE. Always has been, always will be! I kid, I kid.
Love Slackware, just don`t find enough time to get under the bonnet these days. Otherwise, I`d probably be trying to shoe-horn Book II into a Hurd setup, just to see if it could be done.
Oh man, Amigas were great. I didn't get to use them until the late 90s, but even nearly 10 years old and yellowing, they still made Macs and PCs of the day look bad. Using Lightwave 3D on those computers was jaw-dropping. Again, those machines were a couple generations old at that point (1997-98ish).Oh for the simplicity of my trusty old Amigas.
Still run both of mine, and original 1st year A500, with a steam-driven 20Mb hard drive, and an 030 based A1200, with more bits on the outside than in the case.phaedrus wrote:
Oh man, Amigas were great. I didn't get to use them until the late 90s, but even nearly 10 years old and yellowing, they still made Macs and PCs of the day look bad. Using Lightwave 3D on those computers was jaw-dropping. Again, those machines were a couple generations old at that point (1997-98ish).
Although, going from Win95 to SuSE 5.3 back in 1998 was just as breathtaking in its own way.
Thanks!Elwro wrote:Anyway, if "username" is your username, then savegames are in home/username/.basilisk_games/book2_saved_games/ . Each save number x has its own subfolder "slotx".
I see a minus sign instead of a tilde in your postxolotl wrote:~/.basilisk_games <- seems to work for me, btw.
Just checking: Here I type a tilde and then a minus sign: ~-I get a nice clear squiggle on the tilda. It may just be your font.Elwro wrote:I see a minus sign instead of a tilde in your postxolotl wrote:~/.basilisk_games <- seems to work for me, btw.
Oh, I see. Strange, the tilde displays for me as a slightly longer minus sign.
So, the trick with installing a separate copy of glibc I posted earlier in this thread is not working for you?xolotl wrote:Two questions!
2) BW - great news about 1.04 (and 1.05); looking forward to it! Is there a chance of getting a Linux recompile of 1.03 at some time before that release, since that sounds a number of weeks off still? Or shall we just be patient?
