Re: [linux-audio-user] Distro choice :)

el Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:23:33 +0100 Vincent Touquet <vincent.touquet(a)pandora.be> escribió: planet ccrma is not a linux distribution in itself, it's a collection of audio and music related packages specially built for the redhat distribution. that means you have to install redhat first (there are packages for 7.3 and for 8.0), then install and configure apt-rpm, and you are ready to go. apt takes care of everything, and the process is easy and very well documented. the packages are very well built, and it's extremely easy to install everything. i installed it two-three times, and everything works, with a good internet connection you can have your system up and running in a couple of hours. fernando lopez-lescano is doing a great job indeed. the most obvious advantages of the collection are: - it's complete: virtually everything worth having in audio and music is there - it's up to date: fernando's goal is to have latest version of every package. - it's easy: everything is automated and works together, since you know there's somebody taking care of the consistency of the system. the main disadvantage is that it's made specifically for redhat, the packages are no good for other distributions. personally i don't like redhat and never liked it, that's one of the reasons why i don't use planet ccrma myself. but don't pay any attention to my opinion, i don't like _any_ distribution for that matter, and i'm using linuxfromscratch. i never tried gentoo, but from what i've read i would consider it a second option, but you say you find it too complicated this is obviously not the way for you. so, if you can suffer redhat, i would say planet ccrma is definitely the way to go. good luck lj