17 Nov
2002
17 Nov
'02
4:19 p.m.
On Sunday 17 November 2002 20:55, Jason Thompson wrote:
There was a recent discussion here about people using
Debian. Frustrated
with RedHat, I almost went with Debian, but Gentoo caught my eye. So far
I'm really happy with it, though I'm having some difficulties getting
Ardour set up. The great thing about Gentoo is that you compile and
optimize the entire distro on your computer. The performance boost
between Redhat 8.0 (my old distro) and Gentoo is easily noticeable. Plus
their optimized kernel includes the low-latency patches.
Are there any other Gentoo users out there? If so, I'd be interested in
setting up a Gentoo-specific audio listserv to avoid flooding this list
with distro-specific issues. Anyone else interested? (Of course I'll
remain a loyal linux-audio-user subscriber!)
Well, hello, hello! ;-)
You just found a fellow gentoo user starting up with music on linux. There is
an ongoing thread in the gentoo forums ("Gentoo musicians" in the Gentoo Chat
forum) where we are figuring out some things and getting to know who is who.
I saw earlier today another post in the multimedia forum regarding Ardour.
Currently I am installing music software by hand on its own separate /opt
dir, to have more control (and not depend on when .ebuilds are released) so I
don't know of any specific troubles on the ebuild versions. So if you plan on
that list, drop a few lines there and get more people on it.
KiTaSuMbA