Hey,

Just to clarify: I was expressing my expericences of AvLinux, and my intention was far
from trying to start a flame war. Perhaps I should have worded my opinion differently as
to avoid a misunderstanding.

-Harry van Haaren



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ken Restivo <ken@restivo.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I wont answer your question on "Why Debian?", but i will say that AV linux
> is amazing!
> I'm really impressed with it because:
> - FFADO "just worked". ie: modprobe raw1394, chmod /dev/raw1394, start jack.
> Record 12 channels at 8ms for 1/2 n hour with 1 xrun.
> -XFCE: Although i downgraded to stable (4.4) despite having the testing 4.6
> installed, it was not much effort, and not half as bloat as KDE/full gnome.
> -RemasterSys: Click the button, answer some questions (that are newbie
> freindly) and have an ISO made of your exact current system. (I know other
> distros have this feature, but they never seemed to work so well.
> -Wine: For windows -> linux people its great: pre installed. if you dont
> need it, its only a click away in Synaptic!
> -I could go on, but networking, internet browsing, typing (Abiword :-) etc
> all works well too, installing is a doddle, and if i take a DVD around, i
> can get my entire system up & running in under 2 mins! (Upload edited files
> to a git repo on Github when developing, my own site if its an update on
> music.)
>
> GMac, the "Author" of AV really done a great job in my opinion, very much
> recommended!

I'm not taking the distro flamewar-bait either.

AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I might consider trying something different.

-ken