[LAU] AVLinux (Was: a bunch of stuff)

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

I must apologise after reading all this.. 

My intention was not to start a distro flame war.. My intention was to get people
thinking .. what do you want from your distro... as opposed to "I want my debian
based distro to do this".. (reading back I did harp on too much about my own distro)

It was meant to be provocative and get people thinking but not inflamatory ... 

Sorry again.. 




On Thu Jul 30  9:47 , Ken Restivo  sent:

>On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:29:58PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
>> Hey,
>> 
>> Just to clarify: I was expressing my expericences of AvLinux, and my
>> intention was far
>> from trying to start a flame war. Perhaps I should have worded my opinion
>> differently as
>> to avoid a misunderstanding.
>
>No, you're great, I was referring to the more provacative "why debian?" question
of the O.P., which you wisely side-stepped.
>
>> 
>> -Harry van Haaren
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ken Restivo ken at restivo.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
>> > > Hey,
>> > >
>> > > I wont answer your question on "Why Debian?", but i will say that AV
>> > linux
>> > > is amazing!
>> > > I'm really impressed with it because:
>> > > - FFADO "just worked". ie: modprobe raw1394, chmod /dev/raw1394, start
>> > jack.
>> > > Record 12 channels at 8ms for 1/2 n hour with 1 xrun.
>> > > -XFCE: Although i downgraded to stable (4.4) despite having the testing
>> > 4.6
>> > > installed, it was not much effort, and not half as bloat as KDE/full
>> > gnome.
>> > > -RemasterSys: Click the button, answer some questions (that are newbie
>> > > freindly) and have an ISO made of your exact current system. (I know
>> > other
>> > > distros have this feature, but they never seemed to work so well.
>> > > -Wine: For windows -> linux people its great: pre installed. if you dont
>> > > need it, its only a click away in Synaptic!
>> > > -I could go on, but networking, internet browsing, typing (Abiword :-)
>> > etc
>> > > all works well too, installing is a doddle, and if i take a DVD around, i
>> > > can get my entire system up & running in under 2 mins! (Upload edited
>> > files
>> > > to a git repo on Github when developing, my own site if its an update on
>> > > music.)
>> > >
>> > > GMac, the "Author" of AV really done a great job in my opinion, very much
>> > > recommended!
>> >
>> > I'm not taking the distro flamewar-bait either.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > -ken
>> >
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