Jan Depner wrote: > When you use the planet all of these things are included. The kernel is > patched, ALSA is there, all of the apps just download and work. You > *do* need to make sure you get the kernel source but it's there as > well. As I said before, the only apps that I build from scratch are > JACK, Ardour, and JAMin. The only reason I build JAMin from scratch is > because I work on the code. Otherwise, I'd just download it from the > planet as well. Having built everything from scratch before I can tell > you that the planet not only is easier but that it does things the right > way. I'm using the stock unstable version of Debian. It also have everything you need (I don't think it has the patched kernel, but it does have the source and the low-latency patches as separate packages). I typically build most things from CVS also, just to stay on the bleeding edge of things -- JACK, Ardour, JAMin and Rosegarden, primarily.
