3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
11:49 p.m.
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:28 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
On 12/3/05, Brian Dunn <job17and9(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
Yep, you're one of them ;-)
So does anybody out there have the best of all
worlds?
good free documentation, reliable hardware support,
binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config
files that don't get re-written by some user friendly
script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except
for the whole doesn't work thing?
If your system works the way you want it too most of
the time, i want to hear your opinion.
gratefull,
Brian
I have two opinions:
1) If I want *exactly* what Fernando provides on the Planet site, no
more and no less, then PlanetCCRMA is the best I know of. It's well
supported in the audio area by a great guy. It has a good mailing list
with helpful people. (Of which I hope I'm one once in awhile anyway.)
Overall very positive, but it has two downsides:
a) If you need ANYTHING that's not part of the
Planet apt system then
be prepared for RPM hell. At least that's my experience. Email, DVD
stuff, etc.
I don't have any trouble with things that aren't covered in CCRMA.
I just download the source and build it. No RPMs = no RPM hell. I
normally build JACK, Ardour, and JAMin from source anyway.
b) Pick your Fedora version and be prepared to
upgrade, upgrade,
upgrade. Every release of FC# is an opportunity to rebuild your system
from scratch. I know some folks report that they just do an upgrade
and it works for them but I'm sure that not a single one ever worked
for me.
This is true in part. I NEVER upgrade. I also have never had one
work correctly and every time I tried it left a lot of loose ends laying
around. On the other hand, I stayed on FC1 for a couple of years before
I switched up to FC4 (three days ago) because it was stable. I wouldn't
recommend FC4 from the Planet just yet though as it is still a work in
progress.
--
Jan 'Evil Twin' Depner
The Fuzzy Dice
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/fuzzy.html
"As we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and
this we should do freely and generously."
Benjamin Franklin, on declining patents offered by the governor of
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