Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2011, 22:45 -1000 schrieb david: > Simon Wise wrote: > > On 04/08/11 11:40, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > >> [My current modus operandi is to use ubuntu live to partition, grub and > >> generally check out a new system. Then install debian. Any better > >> suggestions are welcome :-) ] > > > > Another debian live cd that has proved very good at dealing with new > > hardware etc, and has a very long track record, is aptosid. This team > > made sidux, and before that kanotix. Almost pure debian sid, with a > > small repo of bug fixes and configuration files, and a nice manual. > > > > http://aptosid.com/ > > I run that on my desktop/server box and I'm planning to put it on my > laptop. They do a great job of smoothing some of the rough edges of Sid. > Just note that Sid no longer includes the NV (open source NVidia) > driver. It includes the newer Nouveau (open source NVidia) driver. > Unfortunately, Nouveau doesn't support the older NVidia hardware ... > > Their newest update now includes an RT kernel 3.0 as an option. > As far I know there isn't a aptosid rt kernel, but in debian/sid there is a 3.0-rt amd64 kernel now. greats hermann _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
