For me, I used to use Suse until I came across CCRMA, they just have their system so well put together, their server uptime and package reliability is just great. http://www.brianredfern.org On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:linux-audio-user-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brian > > Redfern > > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:51 PM > > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] MDK audio distro survey > > > > > > Hey, I'm totally grateful to Fernando, he's saved me many, many hours of > > configuration and kernel recompiling, Planet CCRMA works great with Redhat > > 8.0, and using synaptic and the apt-get port its super easily! > > > > http://www.brianredfern.org > > > > And I haven't heard Austin say anything bad about Fernando or the Planet. I > think Austin likes Mandrake a lot, and he's asked a very general question of > people that may not be qualified to answer" > > "Why isn't Mandrake your distribution of choice?" > > For me, I've heard great things about Mandrake, but I've never built a > machine using Mandrake. Except for recent, I think, things I've read about > Mandrake going under financially, I've really considered trying it out. > However, I can't figure out right now how it's better or worse, and I'm not > qualified to say much more. > > If the Mandrake version of RPM is capable of figuring out dependencies and > then automatically getting me all the stuff I need, then that's a step up > from standard Redhat, and close to what Fernando provides. It might be > enough to cause me to look, if it's true, but I don't know much more today. > > Very happy to have Austin here talking about Mandrake because I am truly > interested. > > Cheers, > Mark > > >
