Re: [linux-audio-user] what distro do you use?

From: David L. Craig <dlc@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 02:16:34 EEST

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:57:22PM +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>
> > a.) what (linux) distribution do you use?
>
> Gentoo.
>
> > b.) does the distribution that you use supply a lot of
> > audio-related packages by default?
>
> Yes, and most of them in relatively recent versions. The rest
> can be installed by user contributed ebuilds or by building
> them from source.
>
> > c.) do you consider the distribution that you use to be
> > notably adequate for audio production? why?
>
> With a custom kernel, yes it is. But Gentoo surely isn't a
> distro for the beginner. Much settings are done by editing
> configuration files. There's no YaST or DrakConf.

I also use Gentoo with the devel 2.6.12 kernel unpatched.

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