15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
7:37 a.m.
On 8/13/05, Un Worldly <dj_unworldly(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
It seems like gentoo is the most audio-ready of the
general distros, but
there is no way I am going to fight with gentoo just to use their sound
packages. Arch would be great for this purpose if only there were more
people to help the cause, unfortunately there are only a few arch musicians
and there isnt anyone maintaining the hard-to-build packages because they
are too hard.
So I need help thinking of the advantages and disadvantages to both
approaches, The tedious but customizable scratch installation vs the
convenient yet 'black box' prefab installation.
what would be absolutely perfect was a customizable audio distro, or a
general distro that officially packaged music software, maybe something like
that will exist in the future.
Well, I'm using Arch, too, because I like the way it works. From time
to time, I also think about switching to Demudi or PlanetCCRMA,
because of the lack of audio packages, but then again, I couldn't
imagine using any other distro, because Arch is simple and it works.
I was "offline" for quite a while, so I wasn't up to date with
anything about Arch Linux, but when I finally found, that PKGBUILDs
now can be exchanged in the AUR, I was quite surprised. There are
already a few audio PKGBUILDs there and I bet, there will be more
coming...
-Michael