Quote from: KermMartian on June 25, 2012, 10:44:30 am

I have posted a video of this in action in the latest Cemetech news article, which also teases Graph3DP progress.

Thanks for the video Kerm
I do not know how much better this can be programmed, but I have to say that benchmark-wise we now can see how much faster the Nspire really is.

EDIT: I just noticed this video: [ Invalid YouTube link ]!
It seems to be on a emulator or something and seem to run a bit faster.

The emulator is slightly overclocked, and kerm's calc was not overclocked at all.

arch really is probably the best other choice. you can make it as light as you want, and there is plenty of forum support.

is it very user-friendly?

EDIT:

It also appears that there is not a 32-bit version of arch?


EDIT2: Maybe I'lljust go ahead and reinstall Ubuntu...

Quote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:47:50 pm

Quote from: alberthrocks on June 21, 2012, 10:45:32 pm

Quote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:28:58 pm

EDIT:

Oooh, guess what i found:
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convert

This is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.
For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?
(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)

Yeah,i guess. However, I do not see any programs right now that i want to install that are not in the slitaz package manager.

Also, I have used the "alien" command in ubuntu to install rpm's before,and it seemed to work fine, so I dont see how this is different.

The alien tool was written by a Debian developer, who not only understands his project's own dependency requirements, but also other package managers as well.

Not saying that the person who wrote that tool is not capable of writing a good tool, but it's kinda unlikely that success will occur. Also, the alien tool's man page does say that this conversion is done with rebuilding the entire source, so... and Ubuntu highly discourages this method of installing packages due to the possibility of dependency problems.

If you'd like to put it to the test, here's a package that you'd might like:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/tilp2

Download the DEB that matches your architecture, and then convert and install the package. I'm quite curious as to whether SliTaz can install this guy without a hitch or not. If it does, it will be quite the technological achievement!

When and if I install SliTaz, I'll try it

Quote from: flyingfisch on June 21, 2012, 10:28:58 pm

EDIT:

Oooh, guess what i found:
http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpkg/raw-file/tip/doc/tazpkg.en.html#convert

This is a... ehh, tad bit risky. I have doubts that you can take any package and do that, unless I'm wrong and this thing is smarter than I think it is.
For instance... say you try to convert the meta-package, kubuntu-desktop. Will it download all the dependencies and convert those?
(Although that is indeed an extreme case, many packages require dependencies in order to run. You probably don't want to run around downloading them!)

Yeah,i guess. However, I do not see any programs right now that i want to install that are not in the slitaz package manager.

Also, I have used the "alien" command in ubuntu to install rpm's before,and it seemed to work fine, so I dont see how this is different.

It's pretty solid. The only cons are that some drivers (especially wireless drivers) may not be available, so be prepared to install some yourself.
The other con is the lack of a "major" packaging system (like Debian/Ubuntu DEB, Fedora RPM , etc. binary compat support). I know they have their own, but...

Otherwise, I like it quite a bit - very clean and simple. The "light" OS that I currently use though is Puppy Linux, which may be a bit more user friendly at the cost of a little more resource usage. ISOs are around 90-150 MBs each, and RAM usage is quite low.

EDIT: I should also mention that you should download the Slackware version of Puppy. That's the binary compatibility I was talking about that I like.

Yeah, I have a puppy livecd, it just seemed sorta big.

also, wireless seems to be working fine off the livecd, so i think i can scratch that problem off.

And the fact that it doesn't have a major packaging manager, I checked their package manager, and it seems to have all the programs I need. If i need more, i think i am ok with compiling tar.gz's

SliTaz is nice, but I prefer Arch.  It is complicated to set up and maintain.  SliTaz while lighter than Ubuntu is in my opinion TOO lite.  I mean it could be different and you might love it, but personally I didn't like it.
You could check out Bodhi Linux as well, which is based off of Arch with the very nice Enlightenment.   Ubuntu has gotten very bloated over the past few years (well I guess it is meant to be packed with programs for noobs).
SliTaz is OKAY but it is very lite.
Just my two cents.

I am just wondering... What do you mean by "TOO lite"?

Hi,

My dad'slinux box crashed and he is giving it to me. He is going to get a new one,but doesnt have it yet. Anyway, I was looking around for another OS because Ubuntu is a little bloated for me, and I came across SliTaz.

Its 34MB, has plenty of packages to install if you want them, and is extremely low resources.

I was wondering if anyone else tried it, and what they thought of it.

OK, I have an FX-9750GII (which I hacked), and a PRIZM.

DJ_O: Re: First post, glad you have seen the light.

To everyone else who bashed DJ_O for stating the perfect truth about casio: "boo!"

Oh, oh, ok. I was getting mixed up. I was thinking I needed to use "or".