23 Apr
2004
23 Apr
'04
3:03 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:35:52PM +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote:
I think a list of distros that aim for multimedia
would looks something like
this:
- Mandrake (especially with Thac's rpms, rpm.nyvalls.se, very fresh)
- Suse (a lot of stuff is included in the main distro, including lowlatency
patched kernels)
- Redhat/Fedora + CCRMA (Looks good and diverse, CCRMA is where all the good
stuff is)
- Agnula (should be a big name, multimedia is what confirms their existence, I
know too little though)
- Dynebolic ( live-cd based, don't know much about it)
I'd add gentoo to that list. Most of what I want can be installed
simply by doing emerge name-of-app.
Occasionally when I want to live on the bleeding edge and install
a more recent version than they have available, of e.g. jack or alsa,
I use emerge's "inject" feature to tell the package system that
I've installed it myself so don't mess with it :-)
This way I can still emerge apps that depend on jack even though
I've installed it myself from source.
Sure does take a long time to install, though :-)
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Paul Winkler
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