23 Jul
2007
23 Jul
'07
4:46 a.m.
Hallo,
Robert Persson hat gesagt: // Robert Persson wrote:
How does Ubuntu Studio compare to JackLab?
...
2. JackLab ships with a kernel better optimised for realtime than the
ubuntu low-latency kernel. However a realtime kernel for Ubuntu is
available from a 3rd party repository.
Isn't JackLab a 3rd party repository to OpenSuSE itself? Ubuntustudio
should have a kernel that is just as "realtime" as the one in JackLab,
if not, use the one from 64Studio or rollyour own.
3. Between Ubuntu and its 3rd-party repositories, and
between SuSE and
its 3rd-party repositories, you can probably get more or less anything
you want, but is one nevertheless more comprehensive than the other?
Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is the largest software collection of
any distribution.
5. Ubuntu Studio ships with Gnome as the default
desktop environment,
although you can easily switch to KDE or XFCE. JackLab ships with
Enlightenment as the default environment, but with KDE also installed
(have I got that right?). KDE is slow and bloated (although I still
like it for general purpose workstation use). Gnome is not as slow,
but it is relatively inflexible considering its complexity; if I don
need to use the workstation for graphics then Gnome would be useless
because you can't manage fonts. I could live with XFCE for audio and
video stuff, but not for much else. I'm not at all familiar with
Enlightenment. Theoretically I should just be able to log into
whichever environment suits the need of the moment, but in practice I
have found that KDM doesn't play well with Gnome, nor GDM with KDE.
Would switching from Enlightenment and KDE in JackLab, depending on
what I was doing, cause me any problems? Will the better optimised
KDE4 make KDE a viable option for working in time-based media?
As you write, the distributions selected some environments as their
default environment. But nothing is stopping any user on a system from
using something else. So you can just install whatever desktop and WM
you like and stay with it.
Is one distribution more stable and reliable than the
other?
I don't think so.
7. I have found the community of Ubuntu users to be
less knowledgeable
than, say, that of Gentoo users. For instance I have not managed to
get solutions to technical problems with Ubuntu on IRC. I have had
better luck on the forums, although this has not been nearly as good
as the help I used to receive on the gentoo-user mailing list in the
days when I was using Gentoo. (That said, I haven't had too many
serious problems with Ubuntu). How does the SuSE community compare in
this regard?
I've heard, SuSE users look better, but I suppose someone has tried to
fool me.
8. Are the packages for one distribution (including
those from the
principal 3rd party repositories) more stable and reliable than those
of the other?
No, none are better than the other.
Ciao
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