[nflug] Mame Distribution

[David J. Andruczyk]

gentoo.  Ultimate customization, and ONLY WHAT YOU WANT. (lean and
fast, once it's done compiling), also one of the latest versions of
mame (0.106) is in portage on it, as well as a couple mame frontends


--- 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
> 
> 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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Dave J. Andruczyk

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