18 Apr
2006
18 Apr
'06
12:42 a.m.
On 4/17/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> wrote:
P.S. - Yeah - If a binary only distro actually worked
for the 50 extra
things I need to run then I'd consider it but I've been down that path
with Fedora and am quite hesitant to go there again. ;-) - MWK
I think you could try Arch Linux. I moved from Gentoo to it and I
don't regret. All the basic packages are binary, compiled against i686
and if you don't find the package you need, you can very easily make
one yourself and install. It is easier to build than an ebuild file.
Or search for it in Arch User Repository, which is an online
repository of .PKGBUILDs (the ebuild of Arch). It is mantained by the
users and you can contribute with PKGBUILDs you write yourself. I have
lots of compiled programs runing without problems. It comes with PAM
0.8(something...), with rtlimits support, so you can easly follow the
examples in the net and get a good latency. For example, I'm using
jack with a period size of 128 and having ~5 ms of latency in the
onboard sound of my ASUS (I am brave, I know, but I'm no professional
:-). There are some xruns when applications start and when I connect
things in qjackctl, and with -p 256 they disappear (but they don't
bother me so much, so I set -p 128 and am very happy). So, go to
www.archlinux.org and give it a try.
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Denis A. Altoe Falqueto
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