Re: [LAU] Switching the distro

Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:19 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
>>> On 05/29/2011 12:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>> I've got a absolutely stable and MIDI jitter free Ubuntu MIDI and audio
>>>> worksattion, regarding to audio apps, but it was very time consuming to
>>>> set it up
>>> Do make a backup of the current setup!! That may come in handy.
>> When there was no MIDI jitter for hw midi, this was the first thing I
>> did. In general I'm making backups very often and I don't sync one
>> backup archive, I always make completely new backups and keep at least
>> the last two backups.
>>
>>> All of your preferences will be met by debian. Pulseaudio is optional
>>> and the debian-multimedia team are on the forefront when it comes to
>>> pro-audio packages.
>>>
>>> Also note that OpenDAW (64studio's successor in the making) is based on
>>> debian/squeeze.
>> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004657.html
>> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004661.html
>>
>> ;)
>>
>> A while ago I tidied up my HDDs and removed most installs.
>>
>> I kept Suse 11.2 and Ubuntu Maverick only.
>> Then I installed Natty.
>>
>> I'll keep those and additionally install Debian, I hope that Debian
>> stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...
>>
>> If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty
>> immediately.
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> Ralf
>
> Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you
> can have =). This is great for stability (as the name implies), but
> don't expect to see some new software for maybe up to a year or 2. If
> you really have to have the latest there'll be stability sacrifices to
> make, but something like Arch (which I use) is great. More maintenance
> needed though, especially if you update close to daily. Once you've
> got a good system going it makes sense to only update when you don't
> have a big project coming up.

I like Debian Sid - AptToSid does a nice distro based on Sid. They have
releases that use LXDE or XFCE, so you don't have to contend with the
idiocies called KDE4 or Gnome 3. Only thing is they don't provide an RT
kernel.

-- 
David
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