ubuntu questions

[silverpig]

So I've been a gentoo user for some time now. I know it, I'm comfortable with it, it works for me 🙂

But I just did a reformat on my desktop and thought I'd try ubuntu. Grabbed the amd64 5.10 cd and went at it. The install hung a number of times, I never got X working, and for some weird reason both my onboard LAN ports arenow borked (don't even work in windows anymore :Q ). Anywho, I threw in an old network card and went with the x86 version.

It's nice. Stable, fast... X gave me a few problems though on my x800xl. I definitely found the x-setup part easier on gentoo... go figure. Synaptic is a nice gui tool. I kind of wish portage had that (I think one is coming if I'm not mistaken).

Few questions though:

1. are there any thing like rc-scripts? Many apps in gentoo come with rc-scripts for easy auto-starting. eg: rc-update add <program name> default starts that program up on reaching the default runlevel. Very handy for background things like boinc etc.

2. Am I just blind or is mplayer/gmplayer not in synaptic? And can I get some decent codecs through synaptic/apt? I'm looking for equivalents to:

emerge mplayer
emerge win32codecs

That's about all I have for now. Still poking around some.

 

[M00T]

Check this out.

 

[silverpig]

Ooh nice find! 🙂

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Few questions though:

1. are there any thing like rc-scripts? Many apps in gentoo come with rc-scripts for easy auto-starting. eg: rc-update add <program name> default starts that program up on reaching the default runlevel. Very handy for background things like boinc etc.

Look in /etc/init.d.

2. Am I just blind or is mplayer/gmplayer not in synaptic? And can I get some decent codecs through synaptic/apt? I'm looking for equivalents to:

emerge mplayer
emerge win32codecs

That's about all I have for now. Still poking around some.

The win32codecs probably have IP issues. One of the downsides of apt and similar package management systems is that they often cannot include things like that, at least not in the US. BSD ports and the little bastard child portage don't have as many issues like that since they don't have a central repository for the files.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: M00T
Check this out.

I agree automatix rocks.



Ausm

 

[sourceninja]

gentoo does have a gui tool. They are 3rd party and unsupported by they work well. Checkout Genu (requires mono), porthole, or search the gentoo forums for others.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: silverpig
Few questions though:

1. are there any thing like rc-scripts? Many apps in gentoo come with rc-scripts for easy auto-starting. eg: rc-update add <program name> default starts that program up on reaching the default runlevel. Very handy for background things like boinc etc.

Look in /etc/init.d.

2. Am I just blind or is mplayer/gmplayer not in synaptic? And can I get some decent codecs through synaptic/apt? I'm looking for equivalents to:

emerge mplayer
emerge win32codecs

That's about all I have for now. Still poking around some.

The win32codecs probably have IP issues. One of the downsides of apt and similar package management systems is that they often cannot include things like that, at least not in the US. BSD ports and the little bastard child portage don't have as many issues like that since they don't have a central repository for the files.

Yeah I've seen all the init scripts in /etc/init.d... gentoo has them too, but then there's rc-scripts which start those init scripts up automatically.

rc-update add sshd default

has the same effect as

/etc/init.d/sshd start on default runlevel so I don't have to do it myself.