Ubuntu is quite good! I installed it yesterday on my laptop and i find it amazing how it recognizes all the hardware. I've got a centrino and Ubuntu even recognized my ipw2100 [wireless networkcard] during the initial install. Sound is working. The battery-indicator, etc...
Took a bit of surfing the different linux posts to get BlitzMax working. In most distributions you can select entire area's of interest to be installed [like office, development] but i found Ubuntu works with single packages using Synaptic.
Because 5.10 is again a bit different from 5.04 I'll explain what i did..
My steps:
1. after installation of Ubuntu updated the system by the icon in the upper-right corner. Which updated several libs including some libgl-mesa.. But in total it only required about 15 MB and was finished in 2 minutes.
2. to get the Blitz-IDE up I installed: xorg-driver-fglrx [autoselection: gcc-base, libstd..]
3. Now when you try to compile something Blitz produces an error: g++ command not found. So I installed g++ [autoselection: gcc..]
4. The next error: crt1.o no such file. This is one of the opengl-files, i believe. Installed: libgl1-mesa-dev [autosel: x11proto, libx11]
5. Next error: cannot find -lGLU. Another opengl-file. Installed: libglu-mesa-dev.
6. Final error: cannot find -lxxf86vm. Installed: libxxf86vm-dev.
7. Now when i try to compile it tells me a bunch more errors. But after i synchronize the modules Blitz completes the compilation with: Done!
8. Finally to get the hardware acceleration going i had to change 'ati' into 'fglrx' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as mentioned somewhere above...
Hope it is of any use..
ghislain
Took a bit of surfing the different linux posts to get BlitzMax working. In most distributions you can select entire area's of interest to be installed [like office, development] but i found Ubuntu works with single packages using Synaptic.
Because 5.10 is again a bit different from 5.04 I'll explain what i did..
My steps:
1. after installation of Ubuntu updated the system by the icon in the upper-right corner. Which updated several libs including some libgl-mesa.. But in total it only required about 15 MB and was finished in 2 minutes.
2. to get the Blitz-IDE up I installed: xorg-driver-fglrx [autoselection: gcc-base, libstd..]
3. Now when you try to compile something Blitz produces an error: g++ command not found. So I installed g++ [autoselection: gcc..]
4. The next error: crt1.o no such file. This is one of the opengl-files, i believe. Installed: libgl1-mesa-dev [autosel: x11proto, libx11]
5. Next error: cannot find -lGLU. Another opengl-file. Installed: libglu-mesa-dev.
6. Final error: cannot find -lxxf86vm. Installed: libxxf86vm-dev.
7. Now when i try to compile it tells me a bunch more errors. But after i synchronize the modules Blitz completes the compilation with: Done!
8. Finally to get the hardware acceleration going i had to change 'ati' into 'fglrx' in /etc/X11/xorg.conf as mentioned somewhere above...
Hope it is of any use..
ghislain