[linux-audio-user] The best distro for music creation

Christoph Eckert ce at christeck.de
Sat Dec 3 19:03:27 EST 2005


> I luv this topic! :) Suffice to say, If we threw a bag of M&M's on
> the floor, everyone would grab a different (their favorite) color!

Hehe. Usually I tend to be quiet in these "Mine is longer than yours" or 
even "What is the best Distro for xyz purpose" discussions.

Setting USE flags and the compile times are surely disadvantages of 
Gentoo, but what I really like is the easy update mechanism and 
(mainly) the fact that the repository really is huge and offers all 
packages in recent versions. This is a major advantage over the 
commercial and binary only distributions like SuSE or Mandriva.

Debian could be an alternative to avoid the compile times, but Debian 
tends to be very slow in adopting new technologies.

Anyway, the optimal distribution doesn't exist. But Gentoo survived 
longer than any other distro before on my machine :) .


Best regards


    ce




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