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

[Russell Hanaghan]

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.

Finally got this downloaded, burnt and installed on a Dell CPxj 650 P3
with 256 mb ram.

They sure did a neat job of this...Had a bit of delay with the HD
formatting but this was no fault of the installer...or should I say the
Yopers installer! :) Easy install!

So packaging>>>   I'm sadly a victim of Father time. One of the good
things about Mandrake is the fact that I can install packages built by
others. Yes, I have to live with their configuration options but that's
been a price I've been willing to pay. Thac's is usually right on the
money. I was looking through the Kpackage and SYnaptic interfaces. Is it
possible we would be able to use Suse packages? Some stuff i will build
but wonder if other rpm packages might work here too. Of course I'm
assuming there is no one building DAW apps for Yopers. And what of the
kernel? I see they are running 2.6.8...but will I have to build my own
kernels to get RT capabilities?

So far though, this is a neat distro...A single CD install, snappy
response...lots of Eye candy and light weight!  And many useful apps
that I see.

R~
> 
> =MB=
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Russell Hanaghan <hanaghan at starband.net>