On 11/14/06, Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
every time there is a new Fedora Core, I usually get around to moving to the next version. However, for me, it's a bit of a pain to do because you really have to wipe the disc and start all over.. ."upgrading" Fedora doesn't really work well. At least for me it doesn't. Don't you find this a bit irritating? I do. It's not hard, it just seems unnecessary. Are other distros better at upgrading but also provide all of the nice features that Fedora does? (there are a lot of audio apps available in rpm for Fedora. I just can't spend my time compiling each and every one when updates come along.) What do others do?
Hi people! I would like to tell my experience on this. I used lots of distros that required reinstalling for the new versions. I used gentoo also, but was really tired of compiling new kde releases and I trashed my system too (of course, this was my fault. I am not blaming gentoo here) About a year and a half ago, I tryed Arch Linux (www.archlinux.org) and never looked back. It has lots of audio applications and the ones that are absent of the repositories, you can create the packages with a simple script. Your new package can be installed like any other package (and uninstalled too, with dependency control). It is realy easy to build packages (I made lots of packages myself and there is a repository of build scripts provided by the comunity). In my opinion, it is powerfull as gentoo without requiring all that work to mantain. I never reinstalled my system. A simple pacman -Syu does the job (pacman is the package manager of the distro). It updates kernels and everything else. It also uses pam 0,8, which allows you to configure the rtlimits for the audio group. Indeed, it comes allmost configured. You just need to uncomment the lines in /etc/security/limits.conf. Sumarizing, if you can handle the installation (espartan, as one forum member said), you will be happy with it forever. I am. My Brazilian R$ 0.02 (in US Dolars it comes to 0.0093 today... well, not very worthy, isn't it? ;-)) -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------
