From: John Long <codeblue@inbox.lv>
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:54:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120713105406.GA30449@inbox.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdQ38EOyU0WFKosbYmZ5Sa88KByRYeX_PyzzOPbvH+h33Ypdw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 04:52:41PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Code Blue <codeblue@inbox.lv> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just received a Lemote Fuloong Mini and I installed OpenBSD on it. I would
> > like to dual boot Linux but I am having a hard time finding the right distro.
> >
> > I know Lemote and MIPS people are doing a lot of work and submitting patches
> > to the Linux kernel and binutils and I am sure many other areas. Can anyone
> > please recommend a Linux distro that will come with (or can install) a
> > recent kernel so I can take advantage of all this hard work people are
> > doing? Of course I will need a tarball or USB installer since the Fuloong
> > doesn't have an optical drive. Thank you.
>
> Gentoo.
>
> Join the #gentoo-mips IRC channel and ping 'blueness' since he's built
> some very nice install stages and netboot images.
>
> Also, we provide multilib installations with o32, n32, and n64 base
> libraries (n32 is default).
Thanks a lot for the info. For now I have repartitioned the drive and used
all of it for OpenBSD. I hope to get another identical box in the next few
months and then I will look into Gentoo.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-05 16:02 Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong Code Blue
2012-07-12 23:52 ` Matt Turner
2012-07-13 10:54 ` John Long [this message]
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