Good Afternoon Crux Community, Looking for a new distro. Been on Linux since 2004. Was on Arch until SystemD, then on FreeBSD until rev 11 (has issues). None of the other BSD's do accelerated graphics well, most not at all. And none of the BSD's do laptops correctly. I primarily use the Mate desktop, and CodeBlocks for C/C++ development. I cannot accept SystemD. I am not philosophical about SystemD ( so I am not trying to start a flame war), it simply has caused me way too many headaches since the beginning, and I'm tired of it. I want control of the system, not some gargantuan PID1 monstrosity. Now that I have officially retired, I use YouTube as my "Television". Occasionally Hulu and NetFlix. I have 32Gb of RAM, a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 MB, with a AMD-FX-8350 (piledriver) CPU, with a AMD RX480 GPU. I am a military veteran with significant hearing loss. I used PulseAudio for access to the built-in sound equalizer to offset my hearing loss for the headphones. I am not locked into PulseAudio. I used the built-in mixer in the OSS driver of FreeBSD to accomplish essentially the same thing - but needing a system-wide audio-equalizer is a necessity. I also need the use of VirtualBox to host some VM's for the few clients I still sys admin for. I am requesting community feedback about the suitability of my target usage on my target hardware. Sincerely and respectfully, Dave
Hey Dave, I can't comment on everything, but i can say im working with amd devs on and off to get the amdgpu-pro package working well with Crux, so that may be in good shape in the next few months. Ive been using crux for about a year and a half now, and its the only linux distro i haven't wanted to abandon over the past decade. Good luck On Nov 23, 2016 4:45 PM, "Dave" <dcbdbis@centurylink.net> wrote:
Good Afternoon Crux Community,
Looking for a new distro. Been on Linux since 2004.
Was on Arch until SystemD, then on FreeBSD until rev 11 (has issues). None of the other BSD's do accelerated graphics well, most not at all. And none of the BSD's do laptops correctly. I primarily use the Mate desktop, and CodeBlocks for C/C++ development. I cannot accept SystemD. I am not philosophical about SystemD ( so I am not trying to start a flame war), it simply has caused me way too many headaches since the beginning, and I'm tired of it. I want control of the system, not some gargantuan PID1 monstrosity.
Now that I have officially retired, I use YouTube as my "Television". Occasionally Hulu and NetFlix. I have 32Gb of RAM, a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 MB, with a AMD-FX-8350 (piledriver) CPU, with a AMD RX480 GPU. I am a military veteran with significant hearing loss. I used PulseAudio for access to the built-in sound equalizer to offset my hearing loss for the headphones. I am not locked into PulseAudio. I used the built-in mixer in the OSS driver of FreeBSD to accomplish essentially the same thing - but needing a system-wide audio-equalizer is a necessity. I also need the use of VirtualBox to host some VM's for the few clients I still sys admin for.
I am requesting community feedback about the suitability of my target usage on my target hardware.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Dave _______________________________________________ CRUX mailing list CRUX@lists.crux.nu https://lists.crux.nu/mailman/listinfo/crux
Greetings, Dave, Welcome! I can't speak to the AMD GPU with much experience but if your hardware works in Arch it'll work in CRUX. A linux kernel is a linux kernel, after all. CRUX doesn't ship kernel packages but there's a fairly generic config included on the installation media which should be a good start to compile your own. If you've already got experience with that, you should be fine. With that said, MATE and PulseAudio are available, as is VirtualBox. Speaking of VirtualBox, I'd recommend trying CRUX there first to see what you think. If your system is running properly now, might as well test before nuking, so to speak. As for your multimedia stuff, pretty much the same as other linux distributions. Chrome or chromium/widevine for netflix, youtube wherever. Not sure about Hulu, haven't used it. CRUX's Pkgfiles are pretty simple so if something's missing it's usually easy to create it yourself. If you have more specifics, feel free to ask here on the mailing list or visit the #crux channel on freenode IRC. I'd say IRC is busier though considering how small the community is, neither is high-traffic. Regards, Matt
On 2016-11-23 22:45, Dave wrote:
Good Afternoon Crux Community,
Looking for a new distro. Been on Linux since 2004.
Was on Arch until SystemD, then on FreeBSD until rev 11 (has issues). None of the other BSD's do accelerated graphics well, most not at all. And none of the BSD's do laptops correctly. I primarily use the Mate desktop, and CodeBlocks for C/C++ development. I cannot accept SystemD. I am not philosophical about SystemD ( so I am not trying to start a flame war), it simply has caused me way too many headaches since the beginning, and I'm tired of it. I want control of the system, not some gargantuan PID1 monstrosity.
Now that I have officially retired, I use YouTube as my "Television". Occasionally Hulu and NetFlix. I have 32Gb of RAM, a Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3 MB, with a AMD-FX-8350 (piledriver) CPU, with a AMD RX480 GPU. I am a military veteran with significant hearing loss. I used PulseAudio for access to the built-in sound equalizer to offset my hearing loss for the headphones. I am not locked into PulseAudio. I used the built-in mixer in the OSS driver of FreeBSD to accomplish essentially the same thing - but needing a system-wide audio-equalizer is a necessity. I also need the use of VirtualBox to host some VM's for the few clients I still sys admin for.
I am requesting community feedback about the suitability of my target usage on my target hardware.
Sincerely and respectfully,
Dave
amdgpu-support should be as up to date as upstream are. I'm currently running it myself. Just make sure you install opt/linux-firmware because the kernel drivers depend on it. /F
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