15 Nov
2006
15 Nov
'06
11:30 a.m.
Mark Knecht wrote:
On 11/14/06, Brad Fuller <brad(a)sonaural.com>
wrote:
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?
Also, what is your experience with full distro upgrades?
You say you do minor upgrades while working during the day. Can you
really do real-time audio work while upgrading?
I have to admit, it sounds like a lot of crunching. What kind of
problems do you run into? My biggest complaint for running from source,
as anyone would attest, is the dependencies - secondary sources that I
have to find and compiles. When finally found, you have to compile,
and then there may be yet another problem with the dependency! This
could be a continuous problem, as you probably very well know. Is this
reasonably accommodated with Gentoo (like using a package manager)?
thanks,
brad
(are you running MythTV on Gentoo?)
Do you have any problems getting the latest audio
apps? (that is, not
compiling, but already packaged)
No problems with that. There is now a maintained
'proaudio' overlay
that gives access to pretty much everything I know about. (No
promises!) you can find out more about the overlay here:
http://proaudio.tuxfamily.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Please note that Gentoo is a source release distro. Eventually you
build *everything* on your system from source code. This means that to
initially install the system you starting by downloading a small set
of precomiled packages to get the machine to boot and then you compile
most everything (in my case Xorg, Gnome, Firefox) you want to run.
It's a lot of work but it's been very stable for me.