Bliight is released; http://tinyurl.com/bliight - Gentoo on your Wii
After many days of screwing around with Gentoo on my Wii (compiling, linking, configuring) I have finally put together a beta release for everyone to try. It is installed in the same manner as whiite, using two partitions. You absolutely must have about 1.4gb available to use it, so if you have a 2gb sdcard then keep the size of your first (homebrew channel) partition under 512mb to have ~148mb or so left with a 68meg swapfile included.
It pretty much features what you've already come to expect from a Wii Linux distro, including a little bit more.
Installed Applications;
- Development
Automakes and confs and builds and blahreah
distcc, Distributed C compiler
ccache, compiler cache
crossdev, for cross compiling over distcc, with custom ppc wrapper script.
cvs, omg is so old.
git, for your source getting needs
GCC 4.1.2
GCC 4.3.2 (default compiler)
GC-Linux patched libSDL
layman, for portage overlays
Portage (duh, doesn't come with a tree, get a snapshot or emerge --sync. I warn ya, it's big though, 600m at least.
svn, for your other source getting needs
- Editors
gEdit for your textfiles
gHex for your binary files
nano for the console freak in you
- Emulators
DosBox, self explainatory
snes9x with snes9express frontend
visualboyadvance with gnomevisualboy frontend or whatnot
FCEUltra, no frontend.
hAtari, the sys roms are installed? (emutos, the free ones) but I don't have it configured to use them
VICE, for the kid in you. (I was surprised at how many emulators came with it...)
...including, xvic, x64, x128, xpet, xplus4, xcbm2, vsid, c1541, and I think petcat and cartconv are utils.
- Games
JumpnBump (jumpnbump)
Gnome games package... including...
gnibbles, gnobots, glines, gnetc, mahjongg, gnomine, gnometris, gnotravex, gnotski, iagno, gtali, blackjack, same-gnome
Scorched Earth (xscorch)
LinCity (xlincity)
- Multimedia
MPlayer, don't know which version at the moment but it ran great.
Music Player Daemon for audio, compiled with most codecs I believe. I haven't added timidity++ support yet (11/30)
Gimmix and Sonata for hitting up Music Player Daemon.
VLC Media Player, no frontend here either, same as mplayer.
alsamixer, I think it controls the volume.
mpg123, for mp3's while relaxin in the console.
Totem, runs like hell for what I tried but whatever; it's there.
- Messaging
Pidgin Instant Messenger, newest version as of when I installed it
X-Chat, should be updating to the newest version shortly
irssi-svn, svn version of irssi, from Dec. 7th or so.
- Network
Midori, webkit (think mac safari) based lightweight browser
cTorrent, incase for some reason you need to download a torrent.
links-graphical, graphical links
links-text, text based links
lynx, because there wasn't enough broswers already.
Remote Desktop Viewer (vinagre)
x11vnc, for connecting to your screen from your pc
tightvnc's vncviewer for connecting to whatever other pc
wget, for quick file gets
All of your basic network tools and most likely even more-
- System Services
All service scripts are in /etc/init.d, you can typically start, stop, and restart them by issuing the command
(for example) /etc/init.d/xdm stop (this would stop the login manager and gui, ctl-alt-f1 to get a console)
dbus, this does bluetooth stuff, you wanna leave it on or bluetooth will forsake you. It can do other things as well mind you.
distccd, daemon for distributed compiling, useful for installing things, should be off by default
gpm, for console mouse services, I dunno, you may need it, off by default.
hald, this may or may not work, it's for mounting devices on insert (this doesn't work at all with usb hubs)
mpd, music player daemon. It's very lightweight, should be on by default.
pure-ftpd, incase you need to transfer files, it's here for you, should be configured but I don't know, off by default
sensorbar, a service script to turn the sensorbar on/off, no longer used as wminput does the same thing on it's own.
sshd, Secure Shell Daemon, on by default, you know what it does right?
wminput, Scans and handles Wii Remote stuff, automatically turns on sensorbar.
xdm, boots gdm so it can auto login you as bliight, on by default but turn off if you'd like to boot to console.
(this is done for any service by using either rc-update add (or del) (runlevel can be boot, default)
- System Tools
gtk2-theme-switch, for changing the look
fme; Fluxbox Menu Editor
aterm, I couldn't f'in read xterm
gdm, so I can autologin; every other way sucks, seriously.
- Utilities
Mirage, Image viewer
Rox, Lightweight filesystem explorer
gKrellm, system monitor yanno.
gCalc, for all your calculation needs when you.. don't have one nearby?
xvkbd, cause sometimes you need a bigger onscreen keyboard
matchbox-keyboard, for all your keyboardin' needs. Make it more readable, please. I gave up.
xpdf, if you ever need to read a pdf file? I dunno, better to have than not.
- Window Managers
The default one that installs with xorg, Tsomething;
Fluxbox
Screen, I think it does count, yes.
Gentoo isn't really everyone's favorite distro, but it is my favorite distro. Perhaps I can convince you of it's validity as well. If you have trouble installing then stop by #bliight on EFNet and I'll see what I can do for you. Good luck;
-T7g
After many days of screwing around with Gentoo on my Wii (compiling, linking, configuring) I have finally put together a beta release for everyone to try. It is installed in the same manner as whiite, using two partitions. You absolutely must have about 1.4gb available to use it, so if you have a 2gb sdcard then keep the size of your first (homebrew channel) partition under 512mb to have ~148mb or so left with a 68meg swapfile included.
It pretty much features what you've already come to expect from a Wii Linux distro, including a little bit more.
Installed Applications;
- Development
Automakes and confs and builds and blahreah
distcc, Distributed C compiler
ccache, compiler cache
crossdev, for cross compiling over distcc, with custom ppc wrapper script.
cvs, omg is so old.
git, for your source getting needs
GCC 4.1.2
GCC 4.3.2 (default compiler)
GC-Linux patched libSDL
layman, for portage overlays
Portage (duh, doesn't come with a tree, get a snapshot or emerge --sync. I warn ya, it's big though, 600m at least.
svn, for your other source getting needs
- Editors
gEdit for your textfiles
gHex for your binary files
nano for the console freak in you
- Emulators
DosBox, self explainatory
snes9x with snes9express frontend
visualboyadvance with gnomevisualboy frontend or whatnot
FCEUltra, no frontend.
hAtari, the sys roms are installed? (emutos, the free ones) but I don't have it configured to use them
VICE, for the kid in you. (I was surprised at how many emulators came with it...)
...including, xvic, x64, x128, xpet, xplus4, xcbm2, vsid, c1541, and I think petcat and cartconv are utils.
- Games
JumpnBump (jumpnbump)
Gnome games package... including...
gnibbles, gnobots, glines, gnetc, mahjongg, gnomine, gnometris, gnotravex, gnotski, iagno, gtali, blackjack, same-gnome
Scorched Earth (xscorch)
LinCity (xlincity)
- Multimedia
MPlayer, don't know which version at the moment but it ran great.
Music Player Daemon for audio, compiled with most codecs I believe. I haven't added timidity++ support yet (11/30)
Gimmix and Sonata for hitting up Music Player Daemon.
VLC Media Player, no frontend here either, same as mplayer.
alsamixer, I think it controls the volume.
mpg123, for mp3's while relaxin in the console.
Totem, runs like hell for what I tried but whatever; it's there.
- Messaging
Pidgin Instant Messenger, newest version as of when I installed it
X-Chat, should be updating to the newest version shortly
irssi-svn, svn version of irssi, from Dec. 7th or so.
- Network
Midori, webkit (think mac safari) based lightweight browser
cTorrent, incase for some reason you need to download a torrent.
links-graphical, graphical links
links-text, text based links
lynx, because there wasn't enough broswers already.
Remote Desktop Viewer (vinagre)
x11vnc, for connecting to your screen from your pc
tightvnc's vncviewer for connecting to whatever other pc
wget, for quick file gets
All of your basic network tools and most likely even more-
- System Services
All service scripts are in /etc/init.d, you can typically start, stop, and restart them by issuing the command
(for example) /etc/init.d/xdm stop (this would stop the login manager and gui, ctl-alt-f1 to get a console)
dbus, this does bluetooth stuff, you wanna leave it on or bluetooth will forsake you. It can do other things as well mind you.
distccd, daemon for distributed compiling, useful for installing things, should be off by default
gpm, for console mouse services, I dunno, you may need it, off by default.
hald, this may or may not work, it's for mounting devices on insert (this doesn't work at all with usb hubs)
mpd, music player daemon. It's very lightweight, should be on by default.
pure-ftpd, incase you need to transfer files, it's here for you, should be configured but I don't know, off by default
sensorbar, a service script to turn the sensorbar on/off, no longer used as wminput does the same thing on it's own.
sshd, Secure Shell Daemon, on by default, you know what it does right?
wminput, Scans and handles Wii Remote stuff, automatically turns on sensorbar.
xdm, boots gdm so it can auto login you as bliight, on by default but turn off if you'd like to boot to console.
(this is done for any service by using either rc-update add (or del) (runlevel can be boot, default)
- System Tools
gtk2-theme-switch, for changing the look
fme; Fluxbox Menu Editor
aterm, I couldn't f'in read xterm
gdm, so I can autologin; every other way sucks, seriously.
- Utilities
Mirage, Image viewer
Rox, Lightweight filesystem explorer
gKrellm, system monitor yanno.
gCalc, for all your calculation needs when you.. don't have one nearby?
xvkbd, cause sometimes you need a bigger onscreen keyboard
matchbox-keyboard, for all your keyboardin' needs. Make it more readable, please. I gave up.
xpdf, if you ever need to read a pdf file? I dunno, better to have than not.
- Window Managers
The default one that installs with xorg, Tsomething;
Fluxbox
Screen, I think it does count, yes.
Gentoo isn't really everyone's favorite distro, but it is my favorite distro. Perhaps I can convince you of it's validity as well. If you have trouble installing then stop by #bliight on EFNet and I'll see what I can do for you. Good luck;
-T7g
