3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
5:33 p.m.
Cesare Marilungo wrote:
Brian Dunn wrote:
sorry, operating
The possibility of using and contributing to
studio
quality audio software is really what first sparked my
interest in linux. So I installed Mandrake 10.1,
because someone gave it to me and it sounded cool. Since then i've
had a lot of fun with it, using their
mm kernel and running jack with seq24 and trying to
come up with something cool enough to use ardour for,
and everything ran relatively reliably. BUT... The
lan componets of the distro simply don't work, the USB
plug and play is more like
plug-and-if-i-feel-like-it-play, and the printer
suport is also compleatly unreliable. So, just use
mandrake for when i'm feeling musical and reboot to
Micro$oft whenever i need to do anything else, right?
well, that's getting old.
So i took a friends advice and started playing with
gentoo. After all, it's well documented. and it was
fun writing all those config files and oh so neat to
DIY, but then i tried to install Gnome, and after like
a 7 hour compile that i can't yet figure out how to
use i'm thinking, what have i gotten myself into...
So does anybody out there have the best of all worlds?
good free documentation, reliable hardware support,
binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config
files that don't get re-written by some user friendly
script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except
for the whole doesn't work thing?
If your system works the way you want it too most of
the time, i want to hear your opinion.
gratefull,
Brian
Just try Slackware. Things will not work out of the box, but you'll
learn the basics of gnu/Linux and you'll have a stable and clean
system, without the need to compile everything from scratch (as with
Gentoo).
I run Slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.6.13 (compiled by myself with just
the stuff I need) and the realtime-lsm module. My pc works the way I
want most of the time, more than how it used to be with a closed
source commercial operation system.
I guess there are a lot of better distributions out there. My only
advice is to avoid a distro that does everything for you. These are
the most difficult to configure and tweak if something doesn't work
plug-and-play, and less adherent to standards. And you'll learn nothing.
c.