On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Drucer Ninetynine <drucer99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Interesting message. You know - I had somewhat similar > thoughts at some point. Then I stopped worrying, > learned a lot and jumped into the driver's seat. I > ditched every distro that I had tried - all of them > had this or that feature that annoyed me. I installed > LFS, learned a lot of things and I have to tell you > that it has given me the best desktop OS experience > ever. At this point I still have to figure out this 64/32 bits library setup thing before I go back to LFS (maybe reading the mailing list would be a good start). I guess I could natively build a 64 bits LFS using a 64 bits distro like SuSE, but the chip supports 32 bits and it seems some apps are simply not used to 64 bits environment for compiling and running. If I was going XScale or PPC or something then I'd expect limitations, but not on the AMD X2. > There is hardly anything that annoys me now. It's more > or less a smooth ride now. Like I've said - the > ingredients are out there to make one helluva audio > system - it's just a matter of getting it all together. Yes indeed ! I really liked the years I used LFS. This is where I first compiled and ran MuSE a couple of years ago. And the stability of the system is impressive because you get to make things run for you so you don't put a zillion unedded processes and modules, as well as a myriad of cases in bootscripts. Not so with SuSE, for instance. I switch (and bought) a commercial distro in 2005 to see what it's like to jump on the big mainstream Linux bandwagon. And athough all the glitter is at the rendez-vous, there are significant instances of instability. Nevertheless I'm impressed with a distro such as SuSE 10.0 (10.1 not !). Hopefully the good folks at Jacklab will put out a clear and stable way of incorporating the Linux Audio suite of applications in the near future. Cheers. Al
