2 Aug
2011
2 Aug
'11
7:35 a.m.
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
On 08/02/2011 07:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
Which version of AVLinux are you talking about? I think I tried it and
it wouldn't run on any of my hardware. (None of which is new enough to
boot from a USB stick, so I tried a DVD.)
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank
everyone on here who's been
recommending it to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and
it has everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight
Debian repositories so I can put on it whatever I'm used to from
Debian-land.
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a
customer in a relatively very short time, got him up and running on an
old PC with no hassles. The RT kernels from the AVLinux website
worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation required. The docs
are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a whole
choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing a
little bit, which was fun.
All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
-ken
Same here, I wanted to test a Ricoh host controller on a notebook with
no Linux on it and didn't want to touch the partitions. So I created a
bootable AVLinux USB stick. Booted and was pleasantly surprised. It's
snappy and a lot of things just work. The only drawback was Jack
segfaulting when I tried to stop it. But the new FireWire stack + 2.6.39
+ Ricoh hostcontroller worked just fine otherwise :)
It sure blows Studio 4 out of the water ;)