Re: [LAU] Do I have Real-Time (Complete Preemption)?

Ray Rashif wrote:
> If you want to remain with a popular package format (i.e deb), I hear
> good things about Sidux. Could be lightweight too. 64Studio isn't really
> "latest", but can be "up-to-date" depending on your software needs.

I have Sidux on the desktop PC here. It works well, although I'm not
doing much audio stuff with it yet. I have an Audiophile 2496 card in it
and haven't yet figured out how to make the mixer settings for it stick.

The problem of Sidux is that updating it can be a very hairy experience,
even if you use one of the scripts designed to make sure dependencies
are met and packages with known upgrade issues are warned of ... I
suppose the best way to update Sidux really is to download the new
release and reinstall. Or selectively update only those packages you
want to update.

Last time I tried upgrading the Sidux on the server, the script
proceeded to uninstall KDE3 and install KDE4, then try to reinstall KDE4
versions of the KDE3 apps it had removed. That effort was a massive
failure (there were damn few KDE4 versions of my KDE3 apps), leaving me
with neither a working KDE4 nor a KDE3. Fortunately, I had imaged the
system drive before updating, so I just restored the drive image and was
back a working system.

Even filtered through Sidux, Debian Sid can sometimes be as unstable as
  Experimental. ;-)

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David
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