24 Feb
2006
24 Feb
'06
2:23 p.m.
Hello been lurking here for a while and just thought
I'd pop in here for some helpful advice.
I have now installed Demudi several times and would
have to say it works out of the box for sure.
However as "Demudi" that is where it stops as Demudi.
Note I have no knowledge of the continuing development
of the distro but I have yet to accomplish a
straightforward upgrade. I get nothing from their
repository and if you attempt an upgrade while X is
running you will end up with some issues that are
seemingly not "easy" to resolve.
Some of the libraries that are part of the upgrade
will make the default window manager unusable. A good
example is libc6 ends up having issues with locale
settings (which may be simple for some) and others
cannot be upgraded while the X server is running.
I have found that if you set your repositories to
debian and init 1 and run apt-get from there it will
work. For now I have found the activity around the
"planet" is far more progessive than that of Demudi.
--- Emiliano Grilli <emillo(a)libero.it> wrote:
venerdì, 24 febbraio 2006 alle 12:17:03, emanuele
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i'm think to switch from mandriva to a more
specific distribution for
audio with linux. so i would like to try demudi.
does demudi need any kind of configuration after
his installation
process (like kernel patch, etc. etc.) or it is
yet well configured by
default?
It should be "ready to rock" out of the box, apart
from hw or
installation problems. Putting some simple lines
into your sources.list
let you access the full debian repository (and you
definitely want this)
and what about planetCCRMA?
Excellent package too. Once installed on top of
fedora should be fully
functional and requires no additional configuration
too.
what is for you the best between demudi and
planetCCRMA?
I've some experience on both, I've used for three
years the planet on a
Red hat 8.0 installation, then switched to DeMuDi.
DeMuDi has its own install cdrom, while planetCCRMA
runs on top of
fedora. I changed mostly because I like more debian
than red hat, I
think that dist-upgrades are better handled by
debian, and that in
general you get a more maintenable system over the
years. However,
debian has its own perversions, and if you want to
be "stable" you are
left a bit behind the "bleeding edge". I've found
easier to compile
things from sources on debian than in red hat (once
you learn a little
apt-voodoo ;) - but this can be just me...
On the other side, I admit that Fedora/RedHat +
planetCCRMA can be
easier to get into for a newbie or a person coming
from windows and not
wanting to read too much manuals. The planet also
has more packages
than DeMuDi (video packages, for example, or the
"common" suite: clm,
cm, cmn). Some object to the "user friendly"
argument (see for example
Tim's newbie story:
http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/NewbieStory)
Speaking of applications, you get a very similar
experience since our
beloved sofwares run the same wathever the
distribution, it's mostly a
matter of choosing what system you like more.For
example fedora
is more oriented towards GUI tools for system
administration, debian is
more text based.
The short answer is: the best one is the one you
like more :)
The problem is that you don't know it in advance :)
So, I suggest to try them both :)
thanx
bye
emanuele
Ciao
PS: and oh, very very very big BIG thanks to
Fernando Pablo Lopez
Lezcano adn Free Ekanayaka, the people behind these
two great
projects.
PPS: and no, DEMuDi isn't dead, there's a lot of
activity going on on
the debian-multimedia mailing list (because DeMuDi
is _not_ a different
thing than debian) and things are getting
interesting...
--
Emiliano Grilli
Linux user #209089
http://www.emillo.net