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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.

I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.

I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:15AM (#206753)

    I put some time to stumble upon the right autoconf flag, but once configured it rocks. I resorted to building the whole thing myself as I could not find it correctly packaged. For me, the killer feature is virtual desktop unliked between screen 0 and 1:ie you can have desktop 0:1 and 1:3. Unlike the traditional 0:0,1:1,n:n.

    I will post my autoconf flags tomorrow

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:41PM (#206946)

    first I export:

    CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe  -ffast-math -march=corei7-avx"
    CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"

    for emotion_generic_players :

    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  --with-vlc

    for efl

    ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr  --enable-systemd   --enable-egl    --enable-xinput22 --enable-scim  --enable-v4l2 --disable-wayland --with-opengl=es --enable-harfbuzz  --enable-xine --enable-avahi

    I force opengl=es because I have an Intel GPU and the es driver seems stabler...

    Elementary and Enlightement do no require special flags. I disable composite effects because they screw up with Eclipse popup menu and that's about it.