Subject: Re: From the Gentoo front, (was Re: [linux-audio-user] Demudi and alsa)
From: jjbenham_AT_chicagoguitar.com
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 23:35:04 EEST
I am using gentoo now. I love it!. I am have written ebuilds but not submitted them yet. I have to work out the bugs in them.
I wrote ebuilds for cinelerra, ladspa-cmt, and snd. I will soon build more. I got discourcaged originally trying to submit ladspa-cmt. They recected it because it did not build on their testing sytems. I am not sure why. It did not find ladsap.h. I think they either did not have ladspa-skd installed or it was a wrong environment variable. I worked fine on both of my machines. I wonder how why can share these files so that we can inprove opon these together.
Keep in touch both you at least and all who use gentoo. I would like to share unoffical ebuilds untill we can work out the bugs and get these things submitted faster.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:34:56PM -0400, Richard Seymour wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:21:52 +0200
> "Michael Krusch" <lau_AT_maren-noel.de> wrote:
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > >I have to admit: SuSE already has a LowLat kernel in the newest
> > version.
> >
> > >Go away, buy a Mac :)
> > Do I look so stupid ;-)
> Macs aren't for stupid people, and they make great Linux (or just
> Unix) machines.
> >
> > I think I will give debian a try. Apt-get is a very nice feature.
>
> If you have a fast internet connection and a fast (>=400 MHz) machine,
> I really think you should try out Gentoo(.org) linux. I just tossed
> it on a machine here at work, and it comes with the latest greatest
> kernel available with all sorts of crazy patches, from grsecurity to
> low latency to preemtible kernel, etc. Based on the ac kernel series.
> They also offer vanilla kernels.
>
> I can't hype it enough. It's so fun to see it build everything from
> scratch, compiling the compiler, the library, the compiler again, your
> needed system apps, your kernel, etc. In only 3 commands or so it
> does that, you do have to config your kernel yourself, the way you
> like it. Also as far as security as concerned, the Gentoo team is
> faster than most at packaging updated sources.
>
> As soon as I get it on my home machine I'm going to see what it can
> really do audio wise. I've used and installed nearly all of the
> distros, with the notable exception of SuSE (only used it), and this
> one is by far the most fun.
>
> They have a package for jack, but from what I see, a lot of the other
> 'must-have' apps aren't in there yet. Ok, I've raved enough about
> this distro, considering I haven't played so much as an mp3 on it ;)
>
> BTW, the install isn't for the feint of heart, but it reminded me of
> the straightforwardness of my first slackware install.
>
> -Rich
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