> I've been pretty disappointed at the state of the various linux distros > recently, and ended up settling on Arch Linux after having gone through > the most recent versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE, > and MEPIS. Ok, good to hear that I'm not just crazy. I mean, on Fedora, sound worked out of the box. If you don't mind the cursor not being able to keep up with the waveform that is. Worked in a totally unusable fashion for pro audio, and I've compiled a lot of stuff from source and couldn't figure out how to fix it. I probably could have done a Linux From Scratch several times now in the amount of time I've spent auditioning "Desktop" distros. > http://www.archlinux.org/ > > It's a fairly lightweight distro, which behaves very *bsd like. If you > use the i386 build (not the more recent x86-64 builds which don't have > the same package support) a good amount of community packages already > exist. The overall speed of the system is quite good and is definitely > better than most that I've tried. > > I've found that pre-built binaries are missing for some of the key sound > apps (like zynaddsubfx) but community supported 'pkg' makefiles exist > and work well (available at the url below). That sounds ok, as I can't think of any proaudio app I didn't end up reconfiguring and recompiling anyway ... Does it use a BSD style port system? I really liked gentoos emerge, but they've gone and screwed up the underlying foundation in order to have a gui installer. How does Arch compare with somthing like slackware? Thanks Iain
