Re: [LAU] AVLinux (Was: a bunch of stuff)

Hey, Just to clarify: I was expressing my expericences of AvLinux, and my intention was far from trying to start a flame war. Perhaps I should have worded my opinion differently as to avoid a misunderstanding.

-Harry van Haaren On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I wont answer your question on "Why Debian?", but i will say that AV > linux > > is amazing! > > I'm really impressed with it because: > > - FFADO "just worked". ie: modprobe raw1394, chmod /dev/raw1394, start > jack. > > Record 12 channels at 8ms for 1/2 n hour with 1 xrun. > > -XFCE: Although i downgraded to stable (4.4) despite having the testing > 4.6 > > installed, it was not much effort, and not half as bloat as KDE/full > gnome. > > -RemasterSys: Click the button, answer some questions (that are newbie > > freindly) and have an ISO made of your exact current system. (I know > other > > distros have this feature, but they never seemed to work so well. > > -Wine: For windows -> linux people its great: pre installed. if you dont > > need it, its only a click away in Synaptic! > > -I could go on, but networking, internet browsing, typing (Abiword :-) > etc > > all works well too, installing is a doddle, and if i take a DVD around, i > > can get my entire system up & running in under 2 mins! (Upload edited > files > > to a git repo on Github when developing, my own site if its an update on > > music.) > > > > GMac, the "Author" of AV really done a great job in my opinion, very much > > recommended! > > I'm not taking the distro flamewar-bait either. > > AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it gets > further and further out of date over the next year or two, I might consider > trying something different. > > -ken >