Hello, Maurice Kinal.
On 23/11/14 21.54 you wrote:

 KvE>> Raspbian, essentialy Debian for the Raspberry
 MK> The RasberryPi gurus recommend that distribution.  Myself I'd be 
 MK> inclined to go with the slackware based one and see what damage I 
 MK> could cause with that on a commanline based system.  :::evil 
 MK> grin:::

Try gentoo, you may survive :)
 
 MK> Near as I can tell the lack of VGA output would make the above 
 MK> interesting and as of this writing am not sure what I could get 
 MK> working graphically on the commandline using the hdmi output.  I 
 MK> had a heck of a time getting inteldrmfb and mplayer to cooperate.  
 MK> Still haven't been able to get sound working over that interface 
 MK> but that isn't all that big a deal since I can still get sound 
 MK> outputting independently of hdmi.  I hear the nouveau (Nvidia) 
 MK> based ones might be a better option in this particular case (hdmi 
 MK> audio output).

Have the pi audio on hdmi ?, well i have a nas that are arm based and with gcc,
ssh works and i get a busybox login, minimal good :)

But i try to keep away from installing gentoo there since that would be time
consuming work, so better to use ipkg  precompilede pkg :)

I have another nas that have telnet access, but are even more minimal, wish
just it had gcc and ipkg aswell, its mips arched

Funny for me is that gentoo suports both arch, its just a matter of
bootstrapping them, and cry if it failed :)
 
 KvE>> It is quite easy.
 MK> Other than the need for a DOS based partition for booting, it is 
 MK> not unlike the way I have been doing all sorts of flashdisk based 
 MK> systems for ~15 years now.  I did have to succumb to a DOS 
 MK> partition for an efiboot thingy recently on an i5 based system 
 MK> recently but so far that has been the only one.  :::knock on 
 MK> wood:::

I have 3 dell 1950, with have utiliti partion in the raid controller bios, but
so far i have not get used to it since i miss the setup disk for this, i have
thinked about get rid of them but still not sure if i just should play with
vmware someday on them, but that cost money imho, so not the fastest route
here, so its delayed
 
 MK> I have been toying with the idea of a RasberryPi with a usb GPS 
 MK> reciever that pulses to build an el-cheapo timeserver just for 
 MK> fun.  Maybe some day.

A nice watch if the hdmi output is on a big wall :)
 
 MK> ... Don't cry for me I have vi.

And i have not unless i add the apk file :)
 
 MK> --- GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-atom-linux-gnu)  * 
 MK> Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.0)

Atlest i can read the 7bit here :)

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