[LAU] In praise of AVLinux

[david]

Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
> 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 ;)

Which version of AVLinux are you talking about? I think I tried it and 
it wouldn't run on any of my hardware. (None of which is new enough to 
boot from a USB stick, so I tried a DVD.)

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David
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