8 Oct
2003
8 Oct
'03
8:17 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 03:14:19 -0500
Rick Taylor <ricktaylor(a)speakeasy.net> wrote:
Slackware's really tough and it's not going
to get a lot easier. It's made for
folk that *really* know linux/unix, etc... {and masochists}. My suggestion would
be to either buy or download Redhat, set it up and save the configs for the rest
For the sake of offering an alternative view, I've found Slackware to be a *much*
better distro for a hands-on learner like me. I never really got into Linux very deeply
until I switched over to Slackware. Believe it or not, I think you have to know *more* in
order to use Redhat or Debian for audio. The simple reason is that the other distros
introduce so many non-standard behaviors, that I could rarely even complete a simple HOWTO
without some cryptic error message popping up. Now that I've switched to Slackware,
OTOH, things generally work right from the start. Even Cinelerra, which (according to the
web site) is supposed to be difficult to build from source, compiled without complaint and
runs without a hitch. Your milage may vary, of course ;)
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