> I'm posting this just as a perspective ... > > I would rather use *BSD. > > for 2 reasons: > reason 1: (not really relevant here) > I like unix at its roots, it just makes me feel good. > > reason 2: (totally effin relevant) > The BSDs don't have this fractured user base. > Sure you can switch between Net* Open* and Free* (Dragon* too), > but you do that for big reasons *UP-FRONT*. > > Its frustrating how fractured linux has become. > (But, maybe it always was.) > Switching distros *IS* a solution. > Switching distros *IS* a solution that should only > happen *ONCE* because your switching from a bad distro. > > unix/linux is beautiful (in one sense, not all) because it lasts. > You can come back to a system that been sitting in a closet > (or sitting at a colo, doing its job) *YEARS* later, and > there it is. The computer. Working. Working well. > That's really nice. > > I use linux because of ALSA, period. > > We need to realize that an audio workstation is not a "server". > It is obvious that realtime takes precedence over security in > "audio land". (I don't mean that in a bad way at all.) > > BUT, linux is still a server OS too. Its kind of everything. > > uhmm, i don't remember what my point was, but i wrote too much > to delete it.... > > -- > paul w hello, i don't think this should be a discussion about changing the dists!!! moving to another distribution should be the last thing to do! and for better reasons then only a package that is newer or "better" or "easier" to handle. this is nonsense! btw, the libpam-modules package w/ rlimits is also in DeMuDi (from "http://demudi.agnula.org/images/1.2.1/README.PACKAGES": libpam-modules 0.76-22) and debian sarge and the current ubuntu (both also version 0.76-22). vlad
