23 Sep
2006
23 Sep
'06
10:47 a.m.
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:09:18 -0700 (PDT)
Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Interesting message. You know - I had somewhat
similar
thoughts at some point. Then I stopped worrying,
learned a lot and jumped into the driver's seat. I
ditched every distro that I had tried - all of them
had this or that feature that annoyed me. I installed
LFS, learned a lot of things and I have to tell you
that it has given me the best desktop OS experience
ever.
At this point I still have to figure out this 64/32 bits library setup
thing before I go back to LFS (maybe reading the mailing list would be
a good start). I guess I could natively build a 64 bits LFS using a 64
bits distro like SuSE, but the chip supports 32 bits and it seems some
apps are simply not used to 64 bits environment for compiling and
running. If I was going XScale or PPC or something then I'd expect
limitations, but not on the AMD X2.
There is hardly anything that annoys me now. It's
more
or less a smooth ride now. Like I've said - the
ingredients are out there to make one helluva audio
system - it's just a matter of getting it all together.
Yes indeed ! I really liked the years I used LFS. This is where I
first compiled and ran MuSE a couple of years ago. And the stability
of the system is impressive because you get to make things run for you
so you don't put a zillion unedded processes and modules, as well as a
myriad of cases in bootscripts. Not so with SuSE, for instance. I
switch (and bought) a commercial distro in 2005 to see what it's like
to jump on the big mainstream Linux bandwagon. And athough all the
glitter is at the rendez-vous, there are significant instances of
instability. Nevertheless I'm impressed with a distro such as SuSE
10.0 (10.1 not !). Hopefully the good folks at Jacklab will put out a
clear and stable way of incorporating the Linux Audio suite of
applications in the near future.
Cheers.
Al