16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
3:10 a.m.
Yves Potin:
Hi, I take permission to respond to share antother experience with
gentoo :). If you absolutely don't know gentoo, with a barely solid
knowledge of a linux system, I would say you'd need more or less one day
to get a working system (with ardour and MuSE, and other smaller audio
apps). You need to know how to compile a kernel (and patch it for real
time of course). Gentoo docs are really well written, and you need to read
them when installing, especially the handbook.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/?catid=install (there are many translations).
Hmm, it might take more time. I used 4 days to get something useful. There
were various reasons to this, I don't remember all of them, but I had huge
problems. Not that I wasn't able to solve them, but it took time. The most
irritating thing for me, was that after I got everything to work, I had to
compile up almost everything again after running emerge update, because
an update of a package caused almost everything not to work, and I had to
run a script that checked dependencies of all packages. And of course, non
of this was easy to find out about for a gentoo newbie.
I have the impression though, after reading the forums, that older
install systems (I used the latest 2006 verion) had fewer problems.
It's a lot of work but it's been very stable
for me.
Thanks Mark, I'll check it out. How long does it take to start from
scratch? I have an P4 1.8 that I'd try it on.
Then, how long does it take from start (from the small set you
mentioned) to a full DAW?