Paul Winkler wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:35:52PM +0200, Robert Jonsson wrote: > >>I think a list of distros that aim for multimedia would looks something like >>this: >>- Mandrake (especially with Thac's rpms, rpm.nyvalls.se, very fresh) >>- Suse (a lot of stuff is included in the main distro, including lowlatency >>patched kernels) >>- Redhat/Fedora + CCRMA (Looks good and diverse, CCRMA is where all the good >>stuff is) >>- Agnula (should be a big name, multimedia is what confirms their existence, I >>know too little though) >>- Dynebolic ( live-cd based, don't know much about it) > > > I'd add gentoo to that list. Most of what I want can be installed > simply by doing emerge name-of-app. > > Occasionally when I want to live on the bleeding edge and install > a more recent version than they have available, of e.g. jack or alsa, > I use emerge's "inject" feature to tell the package system that > I've installed it myself so don't mess with it :-) > This way I can still emerge apps that depend on jack even though > I've installed it myself from source. > > Sure does take a long time to install, though :-) > Paul, I agree that Gentoo can do most of this, but I wonder if it's the right distro for a newbie? emerge is really a great environment with huge amounts of support. I love it, but I wonder if a person new to Linux would be successful getting through the install process? - Mark