Cesare Marilungo wrote: > 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. sorry, operating > > 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. > >
