Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong

Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong

[Code Blue]

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.

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Re: Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong

[Matt Turner]

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.
>
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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).

Re: Please recommend distro for Lemote Fuloong

[John Long]

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.