Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] best audio distribution?
From: Speaker to Vegetables (speaker-to-vegetables_AT_pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 19:29:13 EEST
I seem to recall that the DMUDI Debian release was a kind of pre-beta
example based on an old snapshot of Debian.
The distributions say surprisingly little about this, but some of them
actually install a kernel that is vastly different from the kernel.org
"vanilla" kernel releases. So the set of devices supported, features,
performance, bugs, may all be different too, even when the stated
kernel version (e.g. 2.4.18) is the same. Then there is the issue of
does a device work without your having to do anything, or only if you
put the right magic words in /etc/modules.conf, or not at all?
I've installed SuSE 8.0 on two different machines (a K6-3 VIA MP3 and a
K7 Classic Irongate) and on both, the install went great, they ran fine
under a light load, but under stress of heavy network traffic or CD
burning, they crashed frequently. On the K7 I replaced the kernel with
a vanilla 2.4.18, on the K6 I reverted to Mandrake 8.something (8.2 I
think). In each case the crashing stopped.
On Thursday 22 August 2002 10:52 am, Brian Redfern wrote:
> 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.
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