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On mar, 2014-08-26 at 23:26 +0200, David Adler wrote:
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:24:39PM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
> As this will be a clean install, I'm wondering what people might suggest as
> for best distro to make full use of it - all my other machines have had a
> progression of debian upgrades so are probably full of crud.
Use Arch. It might sound counter-intuitive but despite (or because
of(?)) the rolling release model it requires very little maintenance.
The regular glimpse on the homepage's news feed is recommended but
it's been a long time since anything popped up there that actually
required manual intervention. If this happens, the instructions have
proven to be adequate. Other than that, occasionally configuration files
suffixed *.pacnew/*.pacsave need to be merged and voilà, you have a
crud-free up-to-date system that won't send you to dependency hell when
attempting to install recent software.
The above might sound a bit like over-optimistic marketing speak but it
reflects my experience and from what I've heard it's not just me.
That said, Debian testing didn't exactly give me headaches -- it'd be my
second choice for audio -- but my experiences with Arch (quite a few
years now, no re-installation) are plainly positive.
<A HREF="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_system_maintenance">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_system_maintenance</A>
greetz,
-d
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in the same vein, and for similar reasons, i can heartily recommend Gentoo, or better yet Sabayon (no compiling, binary packages). along with the excellent Pro Audio Overlay http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page i have been happily making music with Gentoo/Sabayon for 6+ years. the big win is the avoidance of major upgrades with the rolling release.<BR>
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also, your message on Arch has me thinking i should check it out as well ;)<BR>
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peace, w<BR>
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