16 Nov
2006
16 Nov
'06
11:17 a.m.
On 11/14/06, Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com> wrote:
every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get
around to moving to
the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because
you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading"
Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't.
Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems
unnecessary.
Are other distros better at upgrading but also provide all of the nice
features that Fedora does? (there are a lot of audio apps available in
rpm for Fedora. I just can't spend my time compiling each and every one
when updates come along.)
What do others do?
Hi people!
I would like to tell my experience on this. I used lots of distros
that required reinstalling for the new versions. I used gentoo also,
but was really tired of compiling new kde releases and I trashed my
system too (of course, this was my fault. I am not blaming gentoo
here)
About a year and a half ago, I tryed Arch Linux (www.archlinux.org)
and never looked back. It has lots of audio applications and the ones
that are absent of the repositories, you can create the packages with
a simple script. Your new package can be installed like any other
package (and uninstalled too, with dependency control). It is realy
easy to build packages (I made lots of packages myself and there is a
repository of build scripts provided by the comunity).
In my opinion, it is powerfull as gentoo without requiring all that
work to mantain. I never reinstalled my system. A simple pacman -Syu
does the job (pacman is the package manager of the distro). It updates
kernels and everything else. It also uses pam 0,8, which allows you to
configure the rtlimits for the audio group. Indeed, it comes allmost
configured. You just need to uncomment the lines in
/etc/security/limits.conf.
Sumarizing, if you can handle the installation (espartan, as one forum
member said), you will be happy with it forever. I am.
My Brazilian R$ 0.02 (in US Dolars it comes to 0.0093 today... well,
not very worthy, isn't it? ;-))
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Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
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