[LAU] Switching the distro

[david]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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 stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...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 If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty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 Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you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?!

I don't know. I wouldn't bother with any 'vintage' option for GNOME3; 
GNOME3 gobbles way too much memory (1GB!!!!) for my taste.

Sorry, I consider all varieties of the GNOME desktop to be an insult. 
Their design philosophy appears to be: "Now that we've removed THAT 
functionality, what else can we remove?" Eventually, the GNOME desktop 
will consist of one button in the middle of the screen that reads: 
"Shutdown." ;-)

-- 
David
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