sunsite.unc.edu \pub\linux\distro... ~ (maybe you microsoft boy and like redmond ?) seriously dl and try suse has a live cd or two superrescue disk is ok cannot help you on the reading part possibly get an old "unleashed BOOK" and slackware would make sense it is spartan and doccumented ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lions" <davidlions@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:10 PM Subject: Basic questions > I am a student doing my final (undergraduate) project with Video for Linux. > All I have to do is keep a stream of video in RAM, in a circular buffer, > then in response to a trigger write it to disk. > > 1. > Performance is one of the things I am going to study. Does anyone know off > the top of their head what format and what sort of rate could be managed by > a K6-200, 66MHz SDRAM, a PCI bus and a generic BT878 card? Which is most > likely to be the bottleneck? Does the BT878 use DMA? (I need to know if I > am going to have to upgrade my hardware) > > 2. > I need Xwindows to view my output files to ensure I am not corrupting or > losing data. My software itself does not need graphics. What is a > relatively lightweight 'window manager' and 'widgets/toolkit' combination > that will work with V4L samples? The one I have now with Debian is superbly > fast and simple but I can't even tell what it's called. If anyone could > just *name* a no-nonsense X windows setup I'll install it and figure it out. > * What is a really lightweight X windows manager/toolkit combo that will > work with V4L2? > * I can get by without Gnome and KDE can't I? > > 3. > Can anyone recommend a good IDE? At this stage I am using 'nano' and a make > file. > > 4. Distribution: > This isn't really a 'basic question', but here goes. I have tried Red Hat > and Debian. People say Redhat is buggy and I don't have time to find my way > around bugs so I thought I would look for a 'programmers' distribution, as > opposed to one loaded with 'features'. Online reviews suggested Slackware > (but it's complex/for hackers), Suse (large and can't afford it) and Debian. > So now I have Debian. This was a mistake. Debian does things differently > to everyone else, which makes most online documentation (like the Kernel > Howto) unhelpful. When I get stuck I have 4 times as much to read... > * What is a free, simple, standard, no-nonsense distro? > * What are you using? > * What would you chose if you were in my situation? > I am obviously incompetent at choosing a distro, please just tell me. I > will go back to Red Hat if someone could suggest which packages I should > skip to avoid clutter? > > My plan is to upgrade and reinstall my system for the last time. Then I > hope I can spend more time working and less reading! > > Thanks, all thoughts appreciated, > David Lions > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
