Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Linux

[Eric Blossom]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 09:03:18AM +1100, Alan Gray wrote:
> Further to my endless questions regarding putting together a new system 
> for GNU Radio, I'm curious as to what variety/brand/type/flavor of 
> Linux people are using on their machines for GNU Radio.
> 
> Should there be any real performance issues motivating my choice? (is 
> it worth looking at real-time linux?) Or is it just a personal 
> preference with minimal impact on the performance of the code? Also, is 
> there anything specific I should look for to support parallel 
> processing?
> 
> A rather inane question I know, but useful none the less
> 
> Alan

I happen to be running Mandrake 9.0.  
I've been a Mandrake user for years, and am happy with it.

Mandrake installs easily from the CD's.  It automatically detects
things such as the availability of multi processors or lots of memory 
(> 1GB) and selects an appropriate kernel.  They ship modules for
pretty much every kind of hardware out there.  I suspect the same is
true for RedHat and the others, I just don't have any recent
experience with them.

I don't think your choice of distribution will make much difference
regarding performance.

Eric