Hello been lurking here for a while and just thought I'd pop in here for some helpful advice. I have now installed Demudi several times and would have to say it works out of the box for sure. However as "Demudi" that is where it stops as Demudi. Note I have no knowledge of the continuing development of the distro but I have yet to accomplish a straightforward upgrade. I get nothing from their repository and if you attempt an upgrade while X is running you will end up with some issues that are seemingly not "easy" to resolve. Some of the libraries that are part of the upgrade will make the default window manager unusable. A good example is libc6 ends up having issues with locale settings (which may be simple for some) and others cannot be upgraded while the X server is running. I have found that if you set your repositories to debian and init 1 and run apt-get from there it will work. For now I have found the activity around the "planet" is far more progessive than that of Demudi. --- Emiliano Grilli <emillo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > venerdì, 24 febbraio 2006 alle 12:17:03, emanuele > ..:: www.rumoridifondo.com ::.. ha scritto: > > i'm think to switch from mandriva to a more > specific distribution for > > audio with linux. so i would like to try demudi. > > > does demudi need any kind of configuration after > his installation > > process (like kernel patch, etc. etc.) or it is > yet well configured by > > default? > > It should be "ready to rock" out of the box, apart > from hw or > installation problems. Putting some simple lines > into your sources.list > let you access the full debian repository (and you > definitely want this) > > > and what about planetCCRMA? > > Excellent package too. Once installed on top of > fedora should be fully > functional and requires no additional configuration > too. > > > what is for you the best between demudi and > planetCCRMA? > > I've some experience on both, I've used for three > years the planet on a > Red hat 8.0 installation, then switched to DeMuDi. > > DeMuDi has its own install cdrom, while planetCCRMA > runs on top of > fedora. I changed mostly because I like more debian > than red hat, I > think that dist-upgrades are better handled by > debian, and that in > general you get a more maintenable system over the > years. However, > debian has its own perversions, and if you want to > be "stable" you are > left a bit behind the "bleeding edge". I've found > easier to compile > things from sources on debian than in red hat (once > you learn a little > apt-voodoo ;) - but this can be just me... > > On the other side, I admit that Fedora/RedHat + > planetCCRMA can be > easier to get into for a newbie or a person coming > from windows and not > wanting to read too much manuals. The planet also > has more packages > than DeMuDi (video packages, for example, or the > "common" suite: clm, > cm, cmn). Some object to the "user friendly" > argument (see for example > Tim's newbie story: > http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/NewbieStory) > > Speaking of applications, you get a very similar > experience since our > beloved sofwares run the same wathever the > distribution, it's mostly a > matter of choosing what system you like more.For > example fedora > is more oriented towards GUI tools for system > administration, debian is > more text based. > > The short answer is: the best one is the one you > like more :) > > The problem is that you don't know it in advance :) > > So, I suggest to try them both :) > > > thanx > > bye > > emanuele > > Ciao > > PS: and oh, very very very big BIG thanks to > Fernando Pablo Lopez > Lezcano adn Free Ekanayaka, the people behind these > two great > projects. > > PPS: and no, DEMuDi isn't dead, there's a lot of > activity going on on > the debian-multimedia mailing list (because DeMuDi > is _not_ a different > thing than debian) and things are getting > interesting... > -- > Emiliano Grilli > Linux user #209089 > http://www.emillo.net > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
