On Friday 06 August 2004 01:35 pm, LinuxMedia wrote: > > From what I see on the CCRMA site. looks like they stay as current as > > possible...I think apt is what they use? Is it relatively free from > > dependency hell with lots of server repositories?... > > > > What about Suse packages? > > If you install the pacages that come with SuSE (tons and tons... and > huge variety), you may never have a problem. Only several times (in 5 > years using SuSE) have I found a program to not install correctly. *All* > dependencies are met. And it even lists what dependencies are being > installed *along* with the original program. > > ... Oh yea... I forgot... you have to click "accept" to install (hehe). > Don't forget to click "accept" (hehe) > > Most of the (non) audio apps I've been using are out of the box. But > don't underestimate how much (audio) work you can get done if you have > other things in place. Audio is my primary activiy, but that spills into > writing a front end... which spills into needing a good text editor for > writing the tcl/tk scripts... which spills into creating buttons and > images for the front end... And all I need to do all of (the above) came > with SuSE. > I was a SuSE user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8) > I'm looking in the directory were I build new programs. They are mostly > audio apps. But there's a lot of programs that came with SuSE that will > probly not need to be updated... there's gui "port connectors" like > kaconnect (for midi connections), QJackConnect (for jack connections) > and other smaller (but time saving) progams that are ready to go. All > those are run out of the box. Oh... so does QJackCtrl for easy starting, > stopping and configuring of jack parimeters. > I don't know what version qjackctl SuSE is shipping but the one I'm using has patchbays for MIDI and jack ports > The irony is that when it came time to write a script that extracts > information from an aconnect command, having kaconnect at my fingertips > helped familiarize me with how things work with the alsa sequencer > ports. It didn't make me lazy. It just helped gave me an important > window to look into to get a grasp on the alsa sequencer ports. Even man > pages make sence to me (hehe). > > I'm not a fanatic about this. I just want you to know one person's > experience with a certain distrob. > > Rocco Never used it for audio, but it's a very slick desktop.