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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

http://lunar-linux.org/

Seems like an interesting distro, I'm still hesitant to try it though. I am satisfied with arch, but I always wondered about those compile everyting distros. I've tried and use gentoo, and I just didn't like it. But for some reason lunar linux is catching my eye. If anyone has tried ti, I'd love to hear a quick review . From what I understand, in a lot of ways it's like arch linux, nothing but a base system. The major difference is that everything is self-compiled.

Last edited by twiistedkaos (2007-08-31 10:16:42)

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

no offence but eeww no. if i were to use a compiling disro that would be arch

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

Tried it about a year ago, but tbh didn't give it much of a chance. I had some problems with their build system, AFAIR - the wlan-ng driver build appeared to fail, but the *.ko was built so I kludged it in to get my wifi going. Look in their bugtracker - I posted something, and they said they wouldn't fix it.

That was about it, really - I think I tried Frugal after that........

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

to take this a bit further and , only partly, justify my first reply
a compiling distro imho needs to have 2 things
a failry large userbase
and EXCELLENT documentation
i dont think a linux distro has yet achieved both, not even gentoo in its glory days
what comes closer would be freebsd but that aint linux

taking the above into consideration i would prefer compiling myself all packages in arch which is simple and its easy to customise and build the packages just the way u want em to. plus its a system u are familiar with

Last edited by dolby (2007-08-31 18:44:40)

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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

What do I get when I install the ISO?
[...]The only service running is secure shell (ssh), and root logins are expressly prohibited! [...]

And how can I install stuff?

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

With su from a normal user's account.

ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

oh yes... you can do `su', but not `su -' I guess.... I sounds so crazy...

Alphalutra1

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Registered: 2006-09-16

Posts: 59

Re: Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

oh yes... you can do `su', but not `su -' I guess.... I sounds so crazy...

No, you can su - as well, you just cannot log in directly as root through ssh.

Cheers,

Alphalutra1