Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] best audio distribution?
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 17:52:55 EEST
To be fair, I have to poitn out I was trying to install DMUDI Debian,
and it must come with a smaller subset of drivers. I just remember going
through the driver loading and seeing that none of my sound or ethernet
cards were covered. However, that's not the same as Woody, also even
DMUDI at least allowed me to do the whole install, while Suse just
straight up froze on me, and when I contacted Suse support, they
couldn't help me at all.
On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 01:04, Anahata wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:05:24PM -0700, Brian Redfern wrote:
> > I'm really talking about the installation experience, not about what a
> > particular kernel driver supports, I know that the kernel is the same on
> > every distro, but not every distro contains as many drivers, I'm talking
> > about ease of use, like what's the easiest to setup. Knowing what
> > drivers I need, I could roll my own debian installation
>
> I accept that there must be some hardware combinations that don't install
> out of the box with some distributions, and it's possible that Debian
> still needs a helping hand more often then others, but I'm happy to
> say that it's improved enormously in my (admittedly subjective)
> opinion recently.
>
> If anyone's had trouble with 2.2 or even early 'testing' versions of 3.0
> in the past, it's worth giving 3.0 another chance now. I'm actually
> running from a June 'testing' snapshot of Woody, and even that seems to
> have been easier to get going than another testing snaphot from earlier
> this year. I can't even be bothered to upgrade to the official release:
> it all simply works. Not that I've tried anything fancy like low latency,
> and of course I may have trained myself to make certain decisions during
> or after the installation process that avoid trouble.
>
> I've flirted with Mandrake and Red Hat before, but I can't see myself
> going back now.
>
> --
> Anahata
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