tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post8121708657927826872..comments2023-09-23T15:39:14.910+01:00Comments on Linux, BSD, and everything else...: Calcalute Linux Desktop 12 KDE - Keep It Rolling, Babyalienlinuxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04159789033238770244noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-77348385334817146962013-12-03T19:53:18.614+00:002013-12-03T19:53:18.614+00:00Hi Barnaby:
Nice review. I am currently using Cal...Hi Barnaby:<br /><br />Nice review. I am currently using Calculate Linux 13.11 for last few days and thinking of reviewing it in my blog. Your article gave me a lot of insights. Thanks for the same. One thing I was wondering about Calculate is that it is built on Gentoo which is supposed to be lighter than Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora based distros. However, what I saw is a slightly heavier distro in terms of resource consumption. Even your review mentions the same. It is a bit surprising to me.<br /><br />Regards,<br />ArindamArindam Senhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08081209827341326458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-37161234229973374202012-12-31T13:30:56.569+00:002012-12-31T13:30:56.569+00:00Very interesting and enlightening read. Your cover...Very interesting and enlightening read. Your coverage in this review was quite appreciated Barnaby :) <br /><br />I was wondering though, if you ever tracked down the issues with VirtualBox (Prolly should run it on an x86_64 anyway, and always make sure you've enabled the virtualization in your BIOS, BTW), and especially Skype - although I'm much more inclined to use Jitsi w/Kamailio instead of Skype.<br /><br />An out of the box working Skype is kind of important for a good many deployments.<br /><br />One other thing, where dependency resolution is concerned on Slackware ;) using sbopkg w/queuefiles provides for a mostly seamless installation process where most software is concerned. i.e., : "# sbopkg -i .sqf -k"<br /><br />Yes, it is indeed a very layered approach, but that figures into the UNIX philosophy nicely.<br /><br />Anyway, great review of a distro that I like too, and that's prolly high praise coming from a slacker who likes all of his compilers and libraries right there at his fingertips after every fresh install. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03327039764885951889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-78064376190715156652012-12-18T08:27:54.587+00:002012-12-18T08:27:54.587+00:00OK, I see your point. If I download the tarball th...OK, I see your point. If I download the tarball then run "makepkg -s" it pulls in the dependencies. Likewise, when using yaourt, for example, the same thing happens. Perhaps the confusion comes in the definition of "dependencies"? In any case, I had no wish to cause a problem, I just wanted to clear up a minor point.<br />I appreciate your taking the time to review another Linux distribution. I've used many of them out there, and have settled on Arch for now. I've got Sabayon installed as well, but have yet to really tackle Gentoo as building from source is not my idea of fun!Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515651111066734061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-43916112534837751982012-12-17T04:54:28.649+00:002012-12-17T04:54:28.649+00:00I mention it because in your review you compare Ge...I mention it because in your review you compare Gentoo to Arch and claim the the AUR does not resolve dependencies, which is false.<br /><br />"And unlike the AUR or Slackbuilds.org, in Gentoo you get dependency resolution as well."Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515651111066734061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-110328624298597282012-12-16T08:27:08.885+00:002012-12-16T08:27:08.885+00:00I forgot to say that, of course, the package can a...I forgot to say that, of course, the package can also be installed with pacman. One can also use several different AUR "helpers" that will download the pkgbuild, build the package and then install it.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515651111066734061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6253115272113487284.post-50204401900910406252012-12-16T08:21:00.790+00:002012-12-16T08:21:00.790+00:00Hi, thanks for the review. I use Arch most of the ...Hi, thanks for the review. I use Arch most of the time and just wanted to mention that the AUR does resolve dependencies. The pkgbuilds take care of this and then create an Arch installable package, which can then removed with the regular package manager, pacman.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01515651111066734061noreply@blogger.com