On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:22:17AM -0000, Dubphil wrote: > > Anybody has ever tried Gentoo for multitrack recording and editing? > > Bye, > > One year of heavy use of audio on Linux drives me, after having tested all > the audio dedicated distros, to the Gentoo distro with my own low-latency > custom kernel and fluxbox. Perhaps DeMuDi, AudioSlack or Planet CCRMA with if the user is new to linux , i'd definitely be suggesting CCRMA or D3MuDi ..no sense in them getting turned away by "you mean i need gtk+-2.8.1-mm-dev? where are my kernel headers? what are kernel headers anyways?". then once they get sick of 'you mean i have to add the ___ reposity to get a version of ___ that isnt ancient? ___ repository is installed a different version of libc and insert_dep_here, is that why half my apps are now randomly segfaulting? how do i know which is which?? you mean im still have to compile all this new stuff from source anwyays and then trick the distro into thinking its installed even tho the distro was supposed..." then they can graduate to gentoo. and stare at their screen while lines and lines of CFLAGS scroll by.. > FC3 where not tunned enough to work with my USB sound card so PCI card > should be better supported. > > Regards > > Philippe >
