On 1/5/12, Daniel Clark <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Nicolás Reynolds <fa...@kiwwwi.com.ar>wrote: > >> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 23:31:16 -0600, Javier Vasquez >> <j.e.vasque...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > On 1/4/12, Daniel Clark <dcl...@pobox.com> wrote: >> > > 2. *Parabola GNU/Linux* >> > > ... >> > > You will need to have another operating system running before >> installing >> > > Parabola. >> > >> > You might install ArchLoong, and then move to parabola... See below, >> > :-) >> >> Hi, this might be a little more difficult, since afaik archloong uses the >> o32 >> abi and we're using n32. >> > > Ah, good to know. So given that Parabola both uses a faster ABI and has a > freedom advantage, is there a good reason for anyone to use Archloong, > other than a pre-existing personal dedication to the Arch name? >
Both lack a good amount of packages porting. Archloong installation is pretty easy. There's a live image you call from pmon, and then to install from it, feels just like Arch. On the other side, some non-free stuff is removed from Parabola, which is the purpose of it (and what's important to you), but there are limitations with multimedia and the like, which not everyone might like. So having a totally free, and a non so free versions of Arch is nice and healthy. BTW, parabola calls its loongson distribution mips64el, which I don't understand yet, given they are not using n64, :-) And another thing that is a mistery to me is why parabola ported mplayer2, and not mplayer, whereas archlinux is already dropping mplayer2 from community, and mplayer remains there... So at the end, you need to see overall what affinity you have with the distro, regarding the different aspects of it (might be the most important one is freedom, performance might be it, also media sharing). Just my $0.02... -- Javier. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
