I'm JADed !
In my apparently never-ending quest to revive and refresh my aging 32-bit box I decided to try installing the JAD (JackLab Audio Distribution) system. To recapitulate the source of woe with this particular machine, I'll remind readers that its PS2 ports are physically damaged, forcing me to switch my mouse and keyboard to the USB ports (the problem has something to do with the HID module). Under normal circumstances this switch wouldn't be a problem, but many contemporary distros and live discs cause the keyboard to vanish from recognition by the system, leaving me with an unusable machine. Regular readers of this blog may recall that I've been using the excellent Dynebolic on this hardware, and that it's worked wonderfully well. However, I thought I'd take a chance with the JAD distribution, and I must say that I've been very pleased with it. The installation and configuration went smoothly, the system is happy with my USB keyboard, and the old box now has a new lease on life, with a shiny new 2.6.19 Linux kernel optimized for realtime performance.
The latest JAD is based on the openSUSE 10.2 distribution, which is, according to Wikipedia, "a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain a general purpose Linux distribution". SUSE is one of the most popular Linux distributions, with a large community of users and developers primarily based in Europe. However, potential users should have no fear if they don't happen to live in a European country: openSUSE is clearly designed for use anywhere, with full internationalization support.
I began my trek into SUSEland by downloading the JAD ISO from the JackLab site.
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