On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:25:00 -0700 iainduncan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Gaaah! I haven't had to install a new linux in ages, and now am faced with doing > so. Is it just me, or is the state of linux pro audio on the major distros a > total mess right now? Fedora core 5 seems to require MUCH tweaking to get any > audio working and has a lot of alsa weirdness preventing serious work, > Ubuntu just plain doesn't work with numerous cards ( including mine! ) and > gentoo took a giant step backwards by rushing a broken and not ready 2006.1 > installer out the door negating all the advantages they used to have. > > Am I the only one who feels like getting pro audio working these days is > *harder* than two years ago??? It seems to me that in the race to make a distro > that has everything working out of the box, we now have a bunch of things that > are really screwed up for those of us with unusual needs, and now they are much > harder to untangle. =( > > Any recos for a distro that must: > - be decent for development > - allow easy integration of from source apps with the distro > - be realtively straightforward for audio kernel recompiles > > Thanks > Iain So far, the best results I've had are from Debian based 64studio (32 bit version). Does all the audio stuff very well, and with not too much tweaking I seem to be able to get most office type stuff organised. Strangely enough, although in the UK I find the German 'testing' repositories seem more complete. -- Will J G
