> 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? This may not be what you expected but how about running without any window manager at all ? If all you want to do is watch the video output, then you can easily get by just having the app connect straight to X. It will be unmanaged, you can't move the window or whatever, but it works. I'm not 100% sure what your setup is going to be, if you intend to also program on that same machine then you'll get into trouble ;) But you will anyway if you're going to develop on that machine. Other than that, blackbox seems like the light-weight WM of choice. > 3. > Can anyone recommend a good IDE? At this stage I am using 'nano' and a make > file. I like anjuta (a Gnome ide), but still use vim 90% of the time. > 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 Red Hat might be a lot of things but it sure isn't buggy. You probably got this remark from a biased person ;) My opinion is just as biased, but from the sort of questions you ask you would do best to go with Red Hat. Red Hat is still the most common; almost all software also has Red Hat packages; you will find a lot of people able to help you out with it. You'll just have to spend a little time turning off start up service to minimise your overal memory usage. It seems from your comments that you want the distribution to get out of your way and just work. Red Hat just works. As to what services to turn off, I suppose stuff like lpd, the name caching daemon, sendmail, and so on. Just spend a little time learning what each service does that starts up at boot time and turn them off if you don't need them. Thomas -- The Dave/Dina Project : future TV today ! - http://davedina.apestaart.org/ <-*- -*-> "Would you like my advice ?" "That depends. Will I like it ?" "Of course you won't ! My advice is based on reality !" <-*- thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -*-> URGent, the best radio on the Internet - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.rug.ac.be/
