Bug0049 Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 I downloaded and am running a distro called Ark Linux. I was wondering if anyone had run it, or is running it, and what you think. Their web site is www.arklinux.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betadan Posted March 9, 2004 Share Posted March 9, 2004 i don't personally run it...but all i have heard from friends is that it's pretty sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordHatrus Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 looks ok... One notably nice feature I noticed from cruising the page was that it only REQUIRED one disc, which seems to be becoming less popular (with good reason, because you can always keep the iso's on your HDD, or phase CDs out with DVDs...) But, it did have its 'own kernel' which can be a good thing, like Gentoo's own kernel, wherein they add distro-optimized options... but other times its because of compatibility issues with the plain (vanilla) kernel not working with all the features, and a support team to lazy to clean up the distro itself..... Without trying it, I'll never know.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudley Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 ark didn't work for my kds laptop - froze it. i'm going with gentoo - patience is needed, but you learn a good deal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MR_Candyman Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 ark is a pretty good distro indeed. What disappointed me about them though is the age of some packages they put in the versions I tried. Reminds me of Fedora and it's package managment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 It looks nice, but I am not going to try it. I love Slackware too much. I don't need a distro that is suited for "window refugees" as the osnews story states. I was going to try gentoo by installing it over my windows. But alas I need windows for wireless to work because I am too lazy to mess with kernel headers or reinstall glibc from source. It will take a lot to get me off of slackware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudley Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 slackware is great - when is 9.2 out? i've had to put the topologi version of slack on my main box, because regular slack wouldn't read my cdrom (try topologi if you want to install in a folder over a ntfs system; i put it on its own partition for safety's sake - works great so far) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 slackware is great - when is 9.2 out?i've had to put the topologi version of slack on my main box, because regular slack wouldn't read my cdrom (try topologi if you want to install in a folder over a ntfs system; i put it on its own partition for safety's sake - works great so far) why wait for 9.2 just keep an eye on packages in slackware-current and keep your kernel updated and there you are, updated slackware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudley Posted March 10, 2004 Share Posted March 10, 2004 true - i just used swaret, nice app! but i've been having problems compiling the 2.6.3 kernel - the .conf file: do i need to append "hdc = [and such and such]"? there was a kernel panic: root= change needed [because it wants to look for hdc2] even though i changed the root= in the .conf file to hda2, it didn't matter, still wanted to search for hdc. do you know how exactly [depending on dev] the new linux boot in .conf should be written? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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