23 Apr
2004
23 Apr
'04
4:24 p.m.
Friday 23 April 2004 19.06 skrev Mark Knecht:
Paul Winkler wrote:
I consider myself somewhat more on the 'power user' side of the spectra and I
love the idea of gentoo.
Build your own customized system... though in a controlled manner.
And infact I did try to do it once but I gave up rather soon thereafter, it
was just too much work for me to keep it going. I still think it's a good
idea though, but it's definitely not for everybody.
/Robert
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:35:52PM +0200, Robert
Jonsson wrote:
Paul,
I agree that Gentoo can do most of this, but I wonder if it's the
right distro for a newbie? emerge is really a great environment with
huge amounts of support. I love it, but I wonder if a person new to
Linux would be successful getting through the install process? I think a list of distros that aim for multimedia
would looks something
like this:
- Mandrake (especially with Thac's rpms, rpm.nyvalls.se, very fresh)
- Suse (a lot of stuff is included in the main distro, including
lowlatency patched kernels)
- Redhat/Fedora + CCRMA (Looks good and diverse, CCRMA is where all the
good stuff is)
- Agnula (should be a big name, multimedia is what confirms their
existence, I know too little though)
- Dynebolic ( live-cd based, don't know much about it)
I'd add gentoo to that list. Most of what I want can be installed
simply by doing emerge name-of-app.
Occasionally when I want to live on the bleeding edge and install
a more recent version than they have available, of e.g. jack or alsa,
I use emerge's "inject" feature to tell the package system that
I've installed it myself so don't mess with it :-)
This way I can still emerge apps that depend on jack even though
I've installed it myself from source.
Sure does take a long time to install, though :-)