ArtistX Release?

Novatian · 05-13-2008, 12:42 AM

What do you guys thinks of ArtistX, a Debian release, and is it based on Etch or Lenny or an earlier distro?

http://www.artistx.org/site2/

jlinkels · 05-13-2008, 06:07 PM

It ships with kernel 2.6.22 and KDE 3.5.7 and therefor I think it is a Lenny release of 2-3 months old.

jlinkels

Novatian · 05-15-2008, 05:09 AM

If it is a Lenny release, is it no longer testing, they made it a stable release?

Might it not be able to find a driver for a late March 08 HD?

Do you think it will accept and smoothly run Debian science and business packages?

farslayer · 05-15-2008, 08:24 AM

Hard drives don't require special drivers.. Hard drive controllers however may...

Are you having trouble an accessing a hard drive you installed recently ?

Novatian · 05-15-2008, 10:27 AM

Yeh, a hard drive which had defects, I returned it. The new one hopefully will do well, one year warranty.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/pro...32&language=en

Do you think, ArtistX will run non art applications well?

Also that other old hard drive, a Maxtor, was detected at first and said to be not big enough. 40 GB.

Then later trying again to install Debian 4.0, it could not find a driver for the hard disk. It gave me a big list, I could not find one which worked, and installation stopped there.

My old computer on which I will try Debian, is a Pentium 2, with 512 Mb RAM. 32 bit. I put in a sound card.

jlinkels · 05-15-2008, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Novatian

If it is a Lenny release, is it no longer testing, they made it a stable release?

No, Lenny is still testing. But a distribution manager can decide to pick any distro suitable. Ubuntu springs off Sid, apparently ArtistX from Lenny. Debian Unstable (Sid) if often considered more stable than other's distro stable release

Quote:

Originally Posted by Novatian

Do you think, ArtistX will run non art applications well?

No reason why not, but it depends if the packaging system (dpkg, apt) was left intact in ArtistX. If it is and you can install packages from the Debian repository you should be able tu run just anything.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Novatian

Also that other old hard drive, a Maxtor, was detected at first and said to be not big enough. 40 GB.

Weird.. was it detected at 40 GB, or did it say there was not enough free space

Quote:

Originally Posted by Novatian

Then later trying again to install Debian 4.0, it could not find a driver for the hard disk. It gave me a big list, I could not find one which worked, and installation stopped there.
My old computer on which I will try Debian, is a Pentium 2, with 512 Mb RAM. 32 bit. I put in a sound card.

For that ancient hardware Debian provides drivers. I wonder if the drive is connected correctly, there is no ATA/SATA problem, if your disc controller is functioning right. I don't know how proficient you are in computers and hw, but you should check a few things first.

Can you boot your puter in a Live distro like Knoppix and are you able to access/partition your HDD from there?

jlinkels

Ghomveld · 04-21-2009, 02:43 AM

The latest ArtistX 0.6 is based on Ubuntu. I am porting to it today, DVD was just delivered.

the trooper · 04-21-2009, 06:44 AM

Edit:Just seen the date on this thread.