Comments on: Reaching back again: ByzantineOS http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andy C. http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47082 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:57:01 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47082 Just a suggestion: you could try the new CrunchBang 10 and see if it boots; it’s based on Debian now and has an i486 image for download.

http://crunchbanglinux.org/downloads/statler/20101205/

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47037 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:32:46 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47037 Great. Now me too. :shock:

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47035 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:26:57 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47035 It’s hard for me to say. My first guess would simply be differences between kernel releases, then compile options, then differences in X and differences in driver versions and server versions, and so forth and so on. …

I agree though; it’s rather frustrating to see Xorg work fine in Crux, work strangely in Debian, work with the kernel framebuffer in ConnochaetOS and then splatter hopelessly against the LCD with ByzantineOS.

One day I shall solve all these little problems, and write a book about my adventures. … :)

]]> By: YankeeDDL http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47031 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:14:16 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47031 Even if I make a fool of myself, I’ll ask this question.
Why is it, that multiple Linux distros, ultimately all based on “the same” linux kernel, don’t allow (“at all”, let alone “easily”) to copy/mimic a working setup from one distro to another? (I’m referring to the video issues of course)

Wouldn’t it be great if you have “one” Trident driver for Linux, and you can install it in *any* distro that is, infact, based on Linux kernel?
By “driver” I mean a … set of settings, actual drivers, other config scripts or whatever it is necessary to get that video card to work.

]]> By: Evaryont http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47028 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:14:21 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47028 I wonder if you could ever get Google’s Chrome OS to run on the Mebius…

dang it anon, now you’ve got TMBG stuck in my head, too!

]]> By: anon http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47026 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:48:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47026 chrome:// means the internal XUL files in Gecko browsers.

Cool OS. Byzantium was renamed to Constantinople now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople…

TMBG is in my head :D

]]> By: CountDuckula http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47008 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:19:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-47008 Yeah, I was thinking Chrome OS meets Netscape Navigator

]]> By: Dmitry http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-46996 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:15:20 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/reaching-back-again-byzantineos/#comment-46996 Hehe… As I see “chrome://” everywhere on the screenshots… Maybe that’s their envisage of ChromeOS? Back to 2004! Back to USSR!
LOLOL!!!

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