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Best Linux distro for Torque dev?

by Ed Averill · in Torque Game Engine · 08/23/2006 (3:02 pm) · 22 replies

Hi! I'm thinking of doing some of my Torque dev under Linux, but I'm not sure of the best distro for it.

I'm mostly a Windows and Mac person so I'm not looking for some bare-metal distro, I want something that'll install happily and let me get Torque to build with the minimum of effort.

All help appreciated!
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    Torque Owner Tim Yardley
    #21
    09/09/2006 (8:25 pm)
    I would like to chime in and offer yet another suggestion. I would recommend using VMWARE. You can get it for free now and it really works well. You can even use a .iso image of Ubuntu and map that as the cdrom device. Never having to install anything. You can also download premade images of just about all the distros. Sharing a folder between windows/OSX/Linux is a snap, so you can develop on Windows and then try it right away in Linux. Here is a link to the free version of vmware.
    http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
    There is a link towards the bottom saying "Want to run other pre-built virtual machines?" That is the link for just about anything premade.

    I have run this combo on my laptop with 512mb ram without issue. I now have 2gig and it really flies.

    Good luck.

    Torque 3D Owner Jesse Liles
    #22
    09/09/2006 (10:01 pm)
    I've been using Slackware since Linux kernel 1.0.8. Those were the days.

    I have a system with two hard drives set to dual boot with the good ol' LILO boot menu.
    Works great, never fails, and the red screen when you boot scares away all but the most hardened PC users.
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