[LAU] Switching the distro

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 23:08 -1000, david wrote:
> Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> > <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:19 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> >>> On 05/29/2011 12:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >>>> I've got a absolutely stable and MIDI jitter free Ubuntu MIDI and audio
> >>>> worksattion, regarding to audio apps, but it was very time consuming to
> >>>> set it up
> >>> Do make a backup of the current setup!! That may come in handy.
> >> When there was no MIDI jitter for hw midi, this was the first thing I
> >> did. In general I'm making backups very often and I don't sync one
> >> backup archive, I always make completely new backups and keep at least
> >> the last two backups.
> >>
> >>> All of your preferences will be met by debian. Pulseaudio is optional
> >>> and the debian-multimedia team are on the forefront when it comes to
> >>> pro-audio packages.
> >>>
> >>> Also note that OpenDAW (64studio's successor in the making) is based on
> >>> debian/squeeze.
> >> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004657.html
> >> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004661.html
> >>
> >> ;)
> >>
> >> A while ago I tidied up my HDDs and removed most installs.
> >>
> >> I kept Suse 11.2 and Ubuntu Maverick only.
> >> Then I installed Natty.
> >>
> >> I'll keep those and additionally install Debian, I hope that Debian
> >> stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...
> >>
> >> If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty
> >> immediately.
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot,
> >>
> >> Ralf
> > 
> > Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you
> > can have =). This is great for stability (as the name implies), but
> > don't expect to see some new software for maybe up to a year or 2. If
> > you really have to have the latest there'll be stability sacrifices to
> > make, but something like Arch (which I use) is great. More maintenance
> > needed though, especially if you update close to daily. Once you've
> > got a good system going it makes sense to only update when you don't
> > have a big project coming up.
> 
> I like Debian Sid - AptToSid does a nice distro based on Sid. They have 
> releases that use LXDE or XFCE, so you don't have to contend with the 
> idiocies called KDE4 or Gnome 3. Only thing is they don't provide an RT 
> kernel.


I switched from KDE3 to GNOME2, full ACK, KDE4 is idiocy. I hope I can
keep GNOME2 for a while :S, since LXDE and XFCE don't really fit to my
flavour :(. I heard about a 'vintage' option for GNOME3?!

-- Ralf