6 Aug
2011
6 Aug
'11
4:51 a.m.
On 06/08/11 02:18, hermann wrote:
Am Freitag, den 05.08.2011, 06:51 -1000 schrieb
david:
But that IS aptosid ... it is not a distribution in the sense that AVLinux is,
it is a way to install debian sid.
They do three very useful things for someone who wants to use debian sid on
their system ..
1/ They package a live install disk with, in my experience at least, an install
system that seems to deal with a wide range of new hardware very well.
2/ They build a custom kernel and maintain a set of bugfixes and an update
warning system to achieve 1/ and try to ensure that apt-get dist-upgrade can be
done safely to keep the installation up-to-date, using either their kernel or a
current or fairly recent debian one.
3/ They maintain a good manual and website so that 1/ and 2/ are useful to the user.
How you configure sid after that is up to you.
AVlinux does something else entirely, they configure and maintain a debian based
system geared towards multimedia, staying quite close to a standard debian
system (so it remains very flexible).
That is another big job done for the audio user, and by most reports they do it
well.
Simon
Aptosid has all of that, too, including the 3.0
RT kernel.
Again, that is not true, you can install a rt-kernel to aptosid simply
with apt-get, but AFAIK it isn't a aptosid kernel (a big diff in the
applied patchs). It is a debian kernel with the debian patch set
applied.