[nflug] Mame Distribution

[Robert Meyer]

Well, I've been using Mandriva (used to be Mandrake) for a long time and it
seems to do a pretty good job of screen and graphics detection and handling. 
I've only found one chip that didn't work right and that was one that may have
been buggy to begin with.

I haven't tried Mandriva 2006, yet.  I don't know how much has changed since
10.2...

Hope this helps

Cheers!

Bob

--- Mark Musone <mmusone at shatterit.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> Quick question, so I'm finishing putting together a MAME cabinet and it's
> currently running slackware (yea, I'm a slackhead). Anyways, I'm having some
> weird problems with the machine freezing and it seems to be related to audio
> or framebuffer..stuff that slackware generally is a bit behind as far as
> desktop capability. So instead of trying to track down the problem, I'm
> thinking of going to a different distribution which most likely has much
> better desktop support. Given that I'm looking for some suggestions on a
> decent distribution. I don't want to start a distro war, just looking for
> about 4 of the better options - specifically for MAME use that I'll try and
> see which works better. As most of you know, I'm a server guy not a desktop
> guy when it comes to linux (and kinda old-school), so any suggestions would
> be greatly appreciated!
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> Some of my current thoughts on possible options are:
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> Knoppix - sounds like it's good, but I'm afraid how supported it is in a
> hard drive-installed situation versus a live bootcd
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> Fedora -- *shrug* is it still alive and recent??
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> Ubuntu - I heard a lot about it lately, but don't know a thing specific.
> Don't know if it's just an unstable hacker toy or actually useful
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> Suse -- *shrug* do I need to speak german to use it?
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> Gentoo -- *shrug*
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> Thanks,
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> Mark
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