On 1/28/07, Frank Barknecht < fbar@footils.org> wrote:

Hallo,
greg hat gesagt: // greg wrote:

> - is that an accurate debian / ubuntu difference, what else is there?
> Basically the only sense i've gotten is that ubuntu is friendly, debian
> is balanced(?) and gentoo is for freaks. I kid.

Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are like red, green and blue. ;)

> - is testing a good choice?  From the description I am expecting
> current, but not bleeding edge packages and a machine that is unlikely
> to blow up.

Yes, running testing is a good choice for an audio machine.

> - will it be "easier" to do a machine based on compile-installs etc and
> not just relying on apt-get with debian than ubuntu.  So therefore might
> it be easier to transition to a realtime machine.  For my purposes
> edgy's 18ish kernel hasn't failed me yet, but hey.

Maybe you want to recompile just for learning it? Search for the
Agnula/Demudi kernel howto, this makes it easy to compile a new kernel
with make-kpkg on Debian/Ubuntu.

The stock Debian kernel doesn't have prepemption enabled AFAIR, so you
will probably get better performance if you build your own with
preepmt enabled.

Ciao
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