On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:19:12AM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their views on distros. But, don't let my > thanking stop you, it's a good thread. Learning issues of other distros > is helpful for me and I hope others. > > What I think I'll do is grab a completely clean HD and install Gentoo > when I have a free day. I might be coming back to the Gentoo experts > begging for help when I get lost! Another thing if you want to try a lot of distros, investigate the free VMWare products. It makes it trivial to bounce back and forth and try crazy experiments without ruining your existing system. Problem: I doubt you can use pro/semipro audio hardware at low latencies under VMWare, but I haven't tried that. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com