Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] kernel 2.6.6 just out
From: Robert Jonsson (robert.jonsson_AT_dataductus.se)
Date: Wed May 12 2004 - 11:37:29 EEST
On Wednesday 12 May 2004 10.25, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
> On mån, 2004-05-10 at 18:05, eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net wrote:
> > Good question. I had already read that and was curious myself. Also,
> > how about 2.6.6-mm1? I want to upgrade to Fedora Core 2 and a new kernel
> > so I can quit pissing off Paul D. and the guys with my 2.96 gcc ;-)
>
> On a related question: I went to town today and saw that for ~15 euro I
> can get a magazine with either Mandrake 10 (Community) or SuSE (Tech
> Review) as a bonus CD.
>
> Both are kernel 2.6.x with ALSA "out of the box" (I believe?), but which
> one should I choose?
Okay, the fight is on! ;-)
Being a long time user of Mandrake only, I can not vouch for the usability of
Suse. I am however using Mandrake 10 in multiple installations right now so I
thought I would comment.
A point list of bad things:
- For audio work the bundled 2.6 kernel is not good enough.
- I also had problems with the the one that thac released (rpm.nyvalls.se)
so I downgraded to kernel-multimedia-2.4.22.21mm.2mdk-1-1mdk, which works
just fine. Now I see that thac has released new 2.6 kernels which maybe
are better... I will try on a rainy day.
- 10 is supposed to have very good usb support, which was not quite what I
have experienced. It appears to be kernel problems though, when I downgraded
the kernel my usb stuff started to work (keyboard and mouse, before you ask,
YES I had a standard PS2 keyboard connected, my brainwaves was not strong
enough to control it, though I tried.)
The good things (more generic):
- Mandrake tends (in my opinion) to favour freshness above stability.
in my book this is only for the good, no stale packages, everything is
up to date.
- New packages appear swiftly and are freely available at a number of
repositories, this is a real boon.
- The config tools get better and better for each release, I don't recall
having any problems with them in the current release (oh maybe with the
printer now that I come to think of it)
That is all, awaiting counter attack. ;)
/Robert
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