Hey,<br><br>Just to clarify: I was expressing my expericences of AvLinux, and my intention was far<br>from trying to start a flame war. Perhaps I should have worded my opinion differently as<br>to avoid a misunderstanding. <br>
<br>-Harry van Haaren<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ken Restivo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote:<br>
> Hey,<br>
><br>
> I wont answer your question on "Why Debian?", but i will say that AV linux<br>
> is amazing!<br>
> I'm really impressed with it because:<br>
> - FFADO "just worked". ie: modprobe raw1394, chmod /dev/raw1394, start jack.<br>
> Record 12 channels at 8ms for 1/2 n hour with 1 xrun.<br>
> -XFCE: Although i downgraded to stable (4.4) despite having the testing 4.6<br>
> installed, it was not much effort, and not half as bloat as KDE/full gnome.<br>
> -RemasterSys: Click the button, answer some questions (that are newbie<br>
> freindly) and have an ISO made of your exact current system. (I know other<br>
> distros have this feature, but they never seemed to work so well.<br>
> -Wine: For windows -> linux people its great: pre installed. if you dont<br>
> need it, its only a click away in Synaptic!<br>
> -I could go on, but networking, internet browsing, typing (Abiword :-) etc<br>
> all works well too, installing is a doddle, and if i take a DVD around, i<br>
> can get my entire system up & running in under 2 mins! (Upload edited files<br>
> to a git repo on Github when developing, my own site if its an update on<br>
> music.)<br>
><br>
> GMac, the "Author" of AV really done a great job in my opinion, very much<br>
> recommended!<br>
<br>
I'm not taking the distro flamewar-bait either.<br>
<br>
AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I might consider trying something different.<br>
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-ken<br>
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