On 8/13/05, Un Worldly <dj_unworldly@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It seems like gentoo is the most audio-ready of the general distros, but > there is no way I am going to fight with gentoo just to use their sound > packages. Arch would be great for this purpose if only there were more > people to help the cause, unfortunately there are only a few arch musicians > and there isnt anyone maintaining the hard-to-build packages because they > are too hard. > > So I need help thinking of the advantages and disadvantages to both > approaches, The tedious but customizable scratch installation vs the > convenient yet 'black box' prefab installation. > > what would be absolutely perfect was a customizable audio distro, or a > general distro that officially packaged music software, maybe something like > that will exist in the future. Well, I'm using Arch, too, because I like the way it works. From time to time, I also think about switching to Demudi or PlanetCCRMA, because of the lack of audio packages, but then again, I couldn't imagine using any other distro, because Arch is simple and it works. I was "offline" for quite a while, so I wasn't up to date with anything about Arch Linux, but when I finally found, that PKGBUILDs now can be exchanged in the AUR, I was quite surprised. There are already a few audio PKGBUILDs there and I bet, there will be more coming... -Michael
