Hallo, Robert Persson hat gesagt: // Robert Persson wrote: > How does Ubuntu Studio compare to JackLab? > ... > 2. JackLab ships with a kernel better optimised for realtime than the > ubuntu low-latency kernel. However a realtime kernel for Ubuntu is > available from a 3rd party repository. Isn't JackLab a 3rd party repository to OpenSuSE itself? Ubuntustudio should have a kernel that is just as "realtime" as the one in JackLab, if not, use the one from 64Studio or rollyour own. > 3. Between Ubuntu and its 3rd-party repositories, and between SuSE and > its 3rd-party repositories, you can probably get more or less anything > you want, but is one nevertheless more comprehensive than the other? Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is the largest software collection of any distribution. > 5. Ubuntu Studio ships with Gnome as the default desktop environment, > although you can easily switch to KDE or XFCE. JackLab ships with > Enlightenment as the default environment, but with KDE also installed > (have I got that right?). KDE is slow and bloated (although I still > like it for general purpose workstation use). Gnome is not as slow, > but it is relatively inflexible considering its complexity; if I don > need to use the workstation for graphics then Gnome would be useless > because you can't manage fonts. I could live with XFCE for audio and > video stuff, but not for much else. I'm not at all familiar with > Enlightenment. Theoretically I should just be able to log into > whichever environment suits the need of the moment, but in practice I > have found that KDM doesn't play well with Gnome, nor GDM with KDE. > Would switching from Enlightenment and KDE in JackLab, depending on > what I was doing, cause me any problems? Will the better optimised > KDE4 make KDE a viable option for working in time-based media? As you write, the distributions selected some environments as their default environment. But nothing is stopping any user on a system from using something else. So you can just install whatever desktop and WM you like and stay with it. > Is one distribution more stable and reliable than the other? I don't think so. > 7. I have found the community of Ubuntu users to be less knowledgeable > than, say, that of Gentoo users. For instance I have not managed to > get solutions to technical problems with Ubuntu on IRC. I have had > better luck on the forums, although this has not been nearly as good > as the help I used to receive on the gentoo-user mailing list in the > days when I was using Gentoo. (That said, I haven't had too many > serious problems with Ubuntu). How does the SuSE community compare in > this regard? I've heard, SuSE users look better, but I suppose someone has tried to fool me. > 8. Are the packages for one distribution (including those from the > principal 3rd party repositories) more stable and reliable than those > of the other? No, none are better than the other. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
