el Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:49:56 -0400 Paul Winkler <pw_lists@xxxxxxxxxx> escribi?: > The drawback is that package installation really does take a lot longer > than any other distro I've tried. you never used linux from scratch, i see.. :-) i switched from LFS to gentoo not long ago, i can no longer afford the time that it takes to install and maintain an LFS box right now. about gentoo i can't say much about its performance yet or if it's specially adequate for audio use. but about audio related software i can say that there are ebuilds for virtually everything you might want to install. and if you can't find an ebuild for a certain application it's quite easy to write your own from the templates. installing the system takes time but is not difficult, and installing software is very easy indeed. not that i particularly _like_ gentoo, i used lfs for years precisely because i never liked _any_ linux distribution. and after using lfs even less... but as i said i had to compromise, and i think that with gentoo you can have a reasonable degree of control over your system. HTH, lj
