Friday 23 April 2004 19.06 skrev Mark Knecht: > 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? I consider myself somewhat more on the 'power user' side of the spectra and I love the idea of gentoo. Build your own customized system... though in a controlled manner. And infact I did try to do it once but I gave up rather soon thereafter, it was just too much work for me to keep it going. I still think it's a good idea though, but it's definitely not for everybody. /Robert
