On 4/17/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > P.S. - Yeah - If a binary only distro actually worked for the 50 extra > things I need to run then I'd consider it but I've been down that path > with Fedora and am quite hesitant to go there again. ;-) - MWK > I think you could try Arch Linux. I moved from Gentoo to it and I don't regret. All the basic packages are binary, compiled against i686 and if you don't find the package you need, you can very easily make one yourself and install. It is easier to build than an ebuild file. Or search for it in Arch User Repository, which is an online repository of .PKGBUILDs (the ebuild of Arch). It is mantained by the users and you can contribute with PKGBUILDs you write yourself. I have lots of compiled programs runing without problems. It comes with PAM 0.8(something...), with rtlimits support, so you can easly follow the examples in the net and get a good latency. For example, I'm using jack with a period size of 128 and having ~5 ms of latency in the onboard sound of my ASUS (I am brave, I know, but I'm no professional :-). There are some xruns when applications start and when I connect things in qjackctl, and with -p 256 they disappear (but they don't bother me so much, so I set -p 128 and am very happy). So, go to www.archlinux.org and give it a try. -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
