Re: [linux-audio-user] best audio distribution?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] best audio distribution?
From: Brian Redfern (bredfern_AT_calarts.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 20:45:11 EEST


Yeah, it really depends upon the distro, what also attracted me to redhat
is that its very easy to get support from my local lug, since everyone in
my area uses redhat, I can get free support right in my studio.

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Speaker to Vegetables wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> "Can you remember the future? Forget it!"
>


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