Re: [LAU] Gentoo as a DAW platform

On Sat May 9 21:11 , Brent Busby sent:

>I've already avoided getting sucked into that in my life with FreeBSD.
>I use only '-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe' and nothing else.
>
>If I were to go to Gentoo, I wouldn't be seeking compiler optimizations
>so much as freedom to keep consistent things that distros change their
>minds about just as soon as you think you've found one with policies you
>like. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse...I used to think they were each
>mistakes in a learning process until I finally realized that at the
>particular time I liked each one, it was because of something they were
>each respectively doing right at the time. They just change their minds
>and you have to go looking for a new "least evil choice."
>
>I think one possibly overlooked advantage of a source-based distro is it
>might give you a platform where you can adopt a policy of your own for
>how things are going to be and expect that it will stay the same long
>enough for you to enjoy it. I don't know, I'm still trying to decide
>though, and I am open to all kinds of ideas.
>

This is what I find. I happily use Gentoo as a DAW with the use of the Pro-Audio
Overlay. I have been doing this for a number of years. Viewing this list I
believe I am still on the right choice as I seem to have less issues than many
other people. This is primarily around the use and inclusion of libraries, level
of customisation and ability to keep personal policies as you mentioned. The only
optimisations I use are the predetermined --march=CPU flags. I recently updated
a core 2 system to a Phenom II and along with re-compiling the kernel simply did
an emerge -e system && emerge -e world and over night had re-optimised my system
for the new architecture.

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Received on Mon May 11 04:15:02 2009