Brian Dunn wrote: >The possibility of using and contributing to studio >quality audio software is really what first sparked my >interest in linux. So I installed Mandrake 10.1, >because someone gave it to me and it sounded cool. >Since then i've had a lot of fun with it, using their >mm kernel and running jack with seq24 and trying to >come up with something cool enough to use ardour for, >and everything ran relatively reliably. BUT... The >lan componets of the distro simply don't work, the USB >plug and play is more like >plug-and-if-i-feel-like-it-play, and the printer >suport is also compleatly unreliable. So, just use >mandrake for when i'm feeling musical and reboot to >Micro$oft whenever i need to do anything else, right? >well, that's getting old. >So i took a friends advice and started playing with >gentoo. After all, it's well documented. and it was >fun writing all those config files and oh so neat to >DIY, but then i tried to install Gnome, and after like >a 7 hour compile that i can't yet figure out how to >use i'm thinking, what have i gotten myself into... > >So does anybody out there have the best of all worlds? >good free documentation, reliable hardware support, >binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config >files that don't get re-written by some user friendly >script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except >for the whole doesn't work thing? > >If your system works the way you want it too most of >the time, i want to hear your opinion. > >gratefull, >Brian > > > > Just try Slackware. Things will not work out of the box, but you'll learn the basics of gnu/Linux and you'll have a stable and clean system, without the need to compile everything from scratch (as with Gentoo). I run Slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.6.13 (compiled by myself with just the stuff I need) and the realtime-lsm module. My pc works the way I want most of the time, more than how it used to be with a closed source commercial operation system. I guess there are a lot of better distributions out there. My only advice is to avoid a distro that does everything for you. These are the most difficult to configure and tweak if something doesn't work plug-and-play, and less adherent to standards. And you'll learn nothing. c.
