[LAU] Audio distros

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:58:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf  
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:27:57 +0100, Jonathan E. Brickman  
> <jeb at ponderworthy.com> wrote:
>> Don't know what's up with all of that, but my Archbang (  
>> http://www.archbang.org ) is 100% systemd and doing very well.
>
> But you did not keep your Arch using init until the day, when init was  
> dropped entirely and there was a mess regarding to packages? If you  
> switched from init to systemd at the right moment it for sure was ok. It  
> also would be possible to fix my old Arch, but for sure it's less work  
> to make a new install.
>
> And regarding to my issues with installing Arch now, installing Archbang  
> isn't the same as installing Arch Linux with PPPoE.
>
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:07:09 +0100, John Murphy  
> <rosegardener at freeode.co.uk> wrote:
>> OT: How do you like FreeBSD's tcsh shell and configuration?
>>     One of the first things I do on any new Linux install is install
>>     tcsh and get it working with 'history search' on up/down arrow
>>     keys like fbsd, and then get my prompt looking right.
>>     Soon feels like home...
>
> *chuckle*
>
> I run scripts with (ba)sh on freebsd :D, but indeed (t)csh is  
> interesting, assumed I ever should relearn C. At the moment I don't have  
> knowledge, neither about bash, nor about tcsh, I only have a very  
> limited repertoire of commands and always need to google how to use them  
> and I'm accustomed to use bash.
>
> A note: I installed FreeBSD only to test my audio card and I'll keep it  
> for toying. Even if not everybody will be as stupid as I'm, the usage of  
> ALSA seems to be an issue in general for FreeBSD, IOW it's not easy to  
> get a sequencer running.

PPS: Regarding to terminal usage I'm missing "Scroll Lock" for Linux.