Re: [linux-audio-user] That Windows feeling...

From: carmen <_@email-addr-hidden-your.name>
Date: Mon Sep 04 2006 - 22:05:40 EEST

> I find it deceiving that
> in 2006 there are still some basic problems with the major flagship
> distros.

whoever said SuSE and FEdora were flagship? flagship distros are debian, gentoo, and ubuntu, with arch and mandriva rounding out the top 5. or REdHat/Novell in the corporate world. Fedora is just redhat's lame attempt to offload work on RedHat to others by emulating the debian model unsuccessfuly.

> work. In fact, even the SuSE kernel has no realtime in it or as
> modules. Or Fedora telling me that my screen is 1600x1200 when it's
> clearly not.

nobody said you had to try Studio64, Musix, Agnula, Demudi, StudioToGo, PCLinuxOS, UbuntuStudio, or wahtever 'derived from another distro and improved but still proably not fully working \'music out-of-the-box\' support'. the big picture requires a maintenance team that can keep things fresh (so that your hardware is supported), and parts functional with eachother (so that your udev loads your sound drivers, your screen works at 1440x960 instead of 1024x768...) and this is much more likely to be the case with gentoo or ubuntu than anbything else. music software being preinstalled is secondary to this really

> Earlier last year I decided to use a commercial distro to see what is
> the state of Linux when you pay for it

i had to pay a bit for gentoo. in the form of my time, to learn how stuff in /etc/portage works (mainly unmasking -9999 audio packages in the proaudio overlay). i find it was a good return on the investment. surely more than the one time a coworker bought a boxed copy of RedHat without consulting the rest of us first..
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