Hallo, greg hat gesagt: // greg wrote: > - is that an accurate debian / ubuntu difference, what else is there? > Basically the only sense i've gotten is that ubuntu is friendly, debian > is balanced(?) and gentoo is for freaks. I kid. Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo are like red, green and blue. ;) > - is testing a good choice? From the description I am expecting > current, but not bleeding edge packages and a machine that is unlikely > to blow up. Yes, running testing is a good choice for an audio machine. > - will it be "easier" to do a machine based on compile-installs etc and > not just relying on apt-get with debian than ubuntu. So therefore might > it be easier to transition to a realtime machine. For my purposes > edgy's 18ish kernel hasn't failed me yet, but hey. Maybe you want to recompile just for learning it? Search for the Agnula/Demudi kernel howto, this makes it easy to compile a new kernel with make-kpkg on Debian/Ubuntu. The stock Debian kernel doesn't have prepemption enabled AFAIR, so you will probably get better performance if you build your own with preepmt enabled. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
