Re: [E-devel] Development distro.

[Carsten H. (T. R. <ra...@ra...>]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 15:59:59 -0200 "Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)" <eb...@gm...>
said:

> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Jonathan Aquilina
> <jaq...@ea...> wrote:
> > For a first time contributor what would be a recommended distro to use.
> > Also to view the wiki one needs a phabricator account
> >
> 
> People here are very distro-agnostic, basically none of them has
> official support for Enlightenment, but I suppose the one that does
> the best job is Arch. I run Fedora and build the source straight from
> my local cloned repository. :)

well there are several distros that do support e - like bodhi, elive,
humanity, ... (download page lists some).

but these are distros focusing on providing e for users. as a developer i would
wipe and replace all the e+efl stuff anyway with self-compiled stuff so they
have far less value to me personally.

it would be nice to one day have a REALLY slickly integrated distro - i mean
something where you install it and boot and from boot (post bios) all the way
through to e being up it is slick and flicker-free. no resetting of the screen.
no text mode debug scrolling past ever - just some nice "booting" image+anim
spinner/bar and then up is e - same on shutdown. same for suspend/resume etc.
etc. - and that doesn't mean we DONT have integration otherwise (ie during
running it all "just works" perfectly. but today we don't have any such thing.

personally i'm moving away from ubuntu to arch. i have moved most of my primary
machines now. reason - ubuntu just has become more and more work to maintain
and keep working as a development environment for e and i am getting tired of
fixing things that used to work fine. arch is more of a pain to get set up by a
vast margin, but once up.. it gets much less in my way and hums along very
nicely. it has by far the fastest/most impressive package manager. you install
something (pacman -S something) you blink and it's installed and done. the
speed of pacman is amazing. it's HOW IT SHOULD BE!. coming from deb/ubuntu...
it's a breath of fresh air.


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