10 Aug
2004
10 Aug
'04
11:33 a.m.
It is likely that audio and video professionals need later
more disks. But RedHat has only a cumbersome, lowest level fdisk.
However, RH has a good graphical disk formatter but it is available
only when RH is installed first time.
Now that USB disks are very easy to add by users, should
distros have such easy-to-use partitioner and formatter.
Have Debian and other distributions a good graphical disk partitioner
and formatter? In the application launcher menu?
Juhana
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11 Aug
11 Aug
7:34 a.m.
Hi Juhana!
Just teamed up with Luke Yelavich to do some Slackware audio packages... So
guess WHICH distro I'm going to recommend to you :)
I've only ever tried Slackware, and I've heard from many sources it is VERY
fast compared to some other distros including RedHat... I like to call them
'bloatware'. Installing Slack takes about half an hour and issues aren't that
likely to happen.
On the low level graphics ALWAYS comes at a cost in terms of stability and
security. A good compromise is interactive text mode programs.
Slackware comes with a great one: CFDISK. Very comfortable to use. The install
program then takes care of formatting.
Here's an article by a guy who just switched to Slack as his Desktop distro.
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=315
If you follow his instructions and top things off with the audioslack.com
packages, I can't think of anything faster, easier, more stable or more
convenient. And to top it off, if you would like me to help you if you run
into any trouble, I gladly will.
Carlo
12 Aug
12 Aug
1:29 p.m.
Carlo Capocasa wrote:
Hi Juhana!
Just teamed up with Luke Yelavich to do some Slackware audio packages... So
guess WHICH distro I'm going to recommend to you :)
I've only ever tried Slackware, and I've heard from many sources it is VERY
fast compared to some other distros including RedHat... I like to call them
'bloatware'. Installing Slack takes about half an hour and issues aren't that
likely to happen.
On the low level graphics ALWAYS comes at a cost in terms of stability and
security. A good compromise is interactive text mode programs.
Slackware comes with a great one: CFDISK. Very comfortable to use. The install
program then takes care of formatting.
Here's an article by a guy who just switched to Slack as his Desktop distro.
http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=315
If you follow his instructions and top things off with the audioslack.com
packages, I can't think of anything faster, easier, more stable or more
convenient. And to top it off, if you would like me to help you if you run
into any trouble, I gladly will.
Carlo
I agree with carlo, slackware is very very fast. I get almost no xruns
with audioslack on even the lowest latency settings, compared to the
other various distro's (except gentoo maybe, never tried) which all tend
to give me latency issues. I highly recommend slackware and audioslack
for anyone thats looking for fast, easy, and extremely stable.
Audioslack now even uses slapt-get, much like debian's infamous apt-get
:-) If you do try it out, please join the mailing list, I also intend on
making some packages like carlo.
Cheers
-Tom
11 Aug
11 Aug
2:05 p.m.
Hi,
Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 3:17:28 PM, you wrote:
JS> Now that USB disks are very easy to add by users, should
JS> distros have such easy-to-use partitioner and formatter.
JS> Have Debian and other distributions a good graphical disk partitioner
JS> and formatter? In the application launcher menu?
QPartEd is a nice graphical partitioner.
It is available in Debian and Gentoo as far as I know.
sincerely,
Marije Baalman
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