29 May
2004
29 May
'04
5:22 p.m.
>Any comments and/or suggestions are welcome and
appreciated (although I
>honestly cannot guarantee that all of them will make it into final
>revision due to aforementioned deadline).
here are two minor suggestions:
1) 7.2, picking the right distribution
I just would like to give my imput about using SuSE 9.0 (professional).
This is not a "comparison" to other distrobs because SuSE is the only
distrob I've ever used. I just wanted to say that it has allowed me to
learn more about audio because it takes care of all the other types of
computer related stuff (no hastle installing, easy internet setup...) so
that I can just focus on audio. Of course, this is an "audio" mailing
list, but I think that it's appropriate to mention how the no hassle
approach that SuSE provides allows for learning of the other things that
are important to (even) audio folks. Like learning how to be an
administrator. This is not "off topic" for the reason that being a good
administrator is important to moving forward and setting up really
decent recording studios on linux. And SuSE has taken care of the things
that I (don't care) to be an expert on.
I don't know as much (as I should) about low latency patches and other
important audio related subjects, but maybe this is because SuSE is set
up pretty well for recording. I have had some problems in the past with
xruns and such. It comes and goes and I've done a lot of tests to find
out if it's hardware or software. I haven't been able to focus on (just
simply) rooting it out because I've got my hands in so many audio
projects. But it seems that audio works pretty well right out of the box.
One other note worth putting in the article. SuSE offers a lot of audio
programs. They are mostly outdated. But the important items are pretty
updated (libaries, dependencies...) so that a person can download the
newest version of an audio program and it usually installs without a
problem.
I would love to hear other people's experience with SuSE.
Thanks,
Rocco