On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 02:10, LinuxMedia wrote:
I was a SuSE
user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some
of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8)
Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of "audio distrobs" like
Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a dedicated
recording environment. But do these run along side an established
distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with them?
All current audio oriented distros or package collections are built on
top of some preexisting distribution (AFAIK). If you are already a user
of a distribution (Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo, etc), and
find a matching audio distro, you can just install it on top of what you
have (with the caveat that not all versions of all distros will have a
matching set of packages). Or if you install from scratch you are not
limited to just audio software, you can install whatever you want, it is
not necessary to have a "dedicated workstation" at all.
-- Fernando