[LAU] Aptosid & Debian music distributions => AVLinux recommended

[Simon Wise]

On 06/08/11 02:18, hermann wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 05.08.2011, 06:51 -1000 schrieb david:
>> Aptosid has all of that, too, including the 3.0 RT kernel.
>
> Again, that is not true, you can install a rt-kernel to aptosid simply
> with apt-get, but AFAIK it isn't a aptosid kernel (a big diff in the
> applied patchs). It is a debian kernel with the debian patch set
> applied.

But that IS aptosid ... it is not a distribution in the sense that AVLinux is, 
it is a way to install debian sid.

They do three very useful things for someone who wants to use debian sid on 
their system ..

1/ They package a live install disk with, in my experience at least, an install 
system that seems to deal with a wide range of new hardware very well.

2/ They build a custom kernel and maintain a set of bugfixes and an update 
warning system to achieve 1/ and try to ensure that apt-get dist-upgrade can be 
done safely to keep the installation up-to-date, using either their kernel or a 
current or fairly recent debian one.

3/ They maintain a good manual and website so that 1/ and 2/ are useful to the user.


How you configure sid after that is up to you.



AVlinux does something else entirely, they configure and maintain a debian based 
system geared towards multimedia, staying quite close to a standard debian 
system (so it remains very flexible).

That is another big job done for the audio user, and by most reports they do it 
well.



Simon