On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:18:46PM +0100, Harry Van Haaren wrote: > Hey, > > I wont answer your question on "Why Debian?", but i will say that AV linux > is amazing! > I'm really impressed with it because: > - FFADO "just worked". ie: modprobe raw1394, chmod /dev/raw1394, start jack. > Record 12 channels at 8ms for 1/2 n hour with 1 xrun. > -XFCE: Although i downgraded to stable (4.4) despite having the testing 4.6 > installed, it was not much effort, and not half as bloat as KDE/full gnome. > -RemasterSys: Click the button, answer some questions (that are newbie > freindly) and have an ISO made of your exact current system. (I know other > distros have this feature, but they never seemed to work so well. > -Wine: For windows -> linux people its great: pre installed. if you dont > need it, its only a click away in Synaptic! > -I could go on, but networking, internet browsing, typing (Abiword :-) etc > all works well too, installing is a doddle, and if i take a DVD around, i > can get my entire system up & running in under 2 mins! (Upload edited files > to a git repo on Github when developing, my own site if its an update on > music.) > > GMac, the "Author" of AV really done a great job in my opinion, very much > recommended! I'm not taking the distro flamewar-bait either. AVLinux does look very tasty. I'm happy with Lenny for now, but as it gets further and further out of date over the next year or two, I might consider trying something different. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
