4 Sep
2006
4 Sep
'06
5:06 p.m.
I find it deceiving that
in 2006 there are still some basic problems with the major flagship
distros.
whoever said SuSE and FEdora were flagship? flagship distros are debian, gentoo, and
ubuntu, with arch and mandriva rounding out the top 5. or REdHat/Novell in the corporate
world. Fedora is just redhat's lame attempt to offload work on RedHat to others by
emulating the debian model unsuccessfuly.
work. In fact, even the SuSE kernel has no realtime
in it or as
modules. Or Fedora telling me that my screen is 1600x1200 when it's
clearly not.
nobody said you had to try Studio64, Musix, Agnula, Demudi, StudioToGo, PCLinuxOS,
UbuntuStudio, or wahtever 'derived from another distro and improved but still proably
not fully working \'music out-of-the-box\' support'. the big picture requires
a maintenance team that can keep things fresh (so that your hardware is supported), and
parts functional with eachother (so that your udev loads your sound drivers, your screen
works at 1440x960 instead of 1024x768...) and this is much more likely to be the case with
gentoo or ubuntu than anbything else. music software being preinstalled is secondary to
this really
Earlier last year I decided to use a commercial distro
to see what is
the state of Linux when you pay for it
i had to pay a bit for gentoo. in the form of my time, to learn how stuff in /etc/portage
works (mainly unmasking -9999 audio packages in the proaudio overlay). i find it was a
good return on the investment. surely more than the one time a coworker bought a boxed
copy of RedHat without consulting the rest of us first..