Florin Andrei wrote: > All my enthusiasm for "the perfect distro for > insert-any-narrow-field-here" has vanished long time ago, when I > realized the huge advantage of using a general purpose distribution > that's good enough for what you are trying to do, and also has a very > large user base. Having lots of users means great support, populous and > active mailing lists and forums, lots of packages already made and ready > to install, and just tons of know-how floating around on the net. > > E.g., at the office we use CentOS. Since it's basically Red Hat > Enterprise, it benefits from all the user base and all the software and > all the know-how of the original distro. Great for enterprise stuff. > > For personal usage, and also for audio, I think Ubuntu is good enough. > If you want more specific features, you can always install Ubuntu > Studio, which will give you special kernels and a bunch of audio apps. > > http://ubuntustudio.org/ > > But before you do that, give plain Ubuntu a try. It may just be good > enough, and it's more "mainstream" than the Studio version. > > *Specialization is basically a liability.* Sooner or later you run into > problems with any such narrow-focus distro. So just get a widely popular > distro and work with it. In the long term, you will realize it allows > you to concentrate more on your work and less on the tool (the distro). > That's all that matters in the end. > > Debian is a great general-purpose distro and Sidux IS Debian (and I agree it is excellent). I see posted regular problems with Ubuntu that don't occur in Debian. I respect that Ubuntu is comparatively easy to configure, but I only recommend it to less experienced users. -It's been said Ubuntu is an African word meaning "can't configure Debian" -Also known as "NotDebian" at forums.debian.org As a long-time Debian Testing user I just had to respond to this subtle flame. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
