Russell Hanaghan wrote: >I need to stretch my wings a little and try something outside of >Mandrake 10.0... > >Can I get some basic pros and cons of the different distro's you're >using? And especially from previous Mandrake users. > >Been thinking about CCRMA because I'm used to packages but I would build >more stuff if it wasn't such a struggle every time I do it. Sometimes I >just need to install stuff and have it work and not spend 20 hours >sifting through Google hits, how to's, etc. I enjoy the learning and >Linux; I just don't have a lot of spare time. > > > >Thanks >R~ > > > > I highly recommend slackware, Luke runs www.audioslack.com, and while not complete (and I don't use his kernel since I have a smp box) its VERY FAST with little effort in setting up. On top of that, there's always high quality addon packages from www.linuxpackages.net. On ccrma I got xruns with my delta1010 on the 128/2/48khz setting, on slackware, 0. Notably: I disable any bs server daemons (except ssh) as well as run fluxbox instead of one of the larger wm/de's. I never have any problems, minus a few things I have to compile and install myself... but thats not too hard :-) Thats my recommendation anyways, I've tried most of them... debian, ccrma's rh, agnula demudi, etc etc... I just find slackware to be clean and easy, very much a choice though :-) NOTE: Please understand this IS an opinion, but should not be taken as flamebait and what not... Cheers -Tom
