[LAU] In praise of AVLinux

[Jeremy Jongepier]

On 08/02/2011 07:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
> I really like AVLinux and I want to thank everyone on here who's been recommending it to various people for a long time.
>
> It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and it has everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight Debian repositories so I can put on it whatever I'm used to from Debian-land.
>
> I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a customer in a relatively very short time, got him up and running on an old PC with no hassles. The RT kernels from the AVLinux website worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation required. The docs are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a whole choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing a little bit, which was fun.
>
> All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
>
> -ken

Same here, I wanted to test a Ricoh host controller on a notebook with 
no Linux on it and didn't want to touch the partitions. So I created a 
bootable AVLinux USB stick. Booted and was pleasantly surprised. It's 
snappy and a lot of things just work. The only drawback was Jack 
segfaulting when I tried to stop it. But the new FireWire stack + 2.6.39 
+ Ricoh hostcontroller worked just fine otherwise :)
It sure blows Studio 4 out of the water ;)

Best,

Jeremy