[linux-audio-user] CCRMA switching to FC2?

Russell Hanaghan hanaghan at starband.net
Sat Aug 28 21:36:35 EDT 2004


On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 17:58 -0700, Malcolm Baldridge wrote:
> > Checked this out real qwik...
> > 
> > That's not a bad looking setup. Are you using it at present? What are
> > it's advantages? Does it have a repository of it's own rpm's or can you
> > install rpm's from other distro's?  What about kernel packages, etc? Is
> > the installer in need of a Masters in Comp science?
> 
> I've only just discovered it a few days ago, burned a copy, and installed it
> onto a Compaq Presario 2103US of all things.
> 
> It went smoothly, and came up into an attractive GNOME-ish GUI which ran
> *VERY* well despite the machine only having 256MB of RAM.  Historically,
> KDE/DeadRat feels more like M$ Windows XP in terms of bringing powerful
> machines to their knees unless very amply configured.  But I will concede
> that my sensitivities to performance issues are probably more than most. 
> GUI/OS responsiveness rates extremely highly for me.  The odd "lags" and
> choppy scrolling and window-tearing during dragging of Mac OSX for example
> disqualify it completely, though clearly lots of people don't mind it.
> 
> I have no horror stories yet.
> 
> If you can, give it a try.
> 
> =MB=

Downloading the "iso" now! :)  One iso...now there's a breathe of fresh
air!  Just downloaded MDK 10.1. Lucked out and got a fast ftp
connection.  

Will sing out when I get a chance to install it on something...Likely my
Dell CPxJ will get it first.

R~
-- 
Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net>




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