22 messages in at.iem.pd-listRe: [PD] Distro Doubt| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Brad Kligerman | Feb 16, 2006 1:50 am | |
| Renato Fabbri | Feb 16, 2006 1:22 pm | |
| derek holzer | Feb 16, 2006 2:03 pm | |
| Marc Lavallée | Feb 16, 2006 4:03 pm | |
| Davide Morelli | Feb 16, 2006 4:24 pm | |
| david golightly | Feb 16, 2006 4:30 pm | |
| cdr | Feb 16, 2006 4:33 pm | |
| vincent rioux | Feb 16, 2006 6:02 pm | |
| Marc Lavallée | Feb 16, 2006 8:18 pm | |
| dafydd hughes | Feb 16, 2006 8:25 pm | |
| Frank Barknecht | Feb 16, 2006 10:29 pm | |
| david golightly | Feb 16, 2006 11:36 pm | |
| Jamie Bullock | Feb 16, 2006 11:43 pm | |
| juto aviten | Feb 17, 2006 1:45 am | |
| Davide Morelli | Feb 17, 2006 3:20 am | |
| dominic | Feb 17, 2006 3:43 am | |
| dominic | Feb 17, 2006 3:46 am | |
| day 5 | Feb 17, 2006 6:49 am | |
| hard off | Feb 17, 2006 6:59 am | |
| Paris Treantafeles | Feb 17, 2006 7:01 am | |
| day 5 | Feb 17, 2006 7:11 am | |
| Georg Holzmann | Feb 17, 2006 7:12 am |
| Subject: | Re: [PD] Distro Doubt | |
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| From: | derek holzer (der...@x-i.net) | |
| Date: | Feb 16, 2006 2:03:47 pm | |
| List: | at.iem.pd-list | |
My suggestion would be to use Ubuntu to get a basic installation, and add the DeMuDi packages on top of that. Ubuntu should streamline the hardware detection & configuration process quite nicely. The DeMuDi packages could be part of Debian (Unstable/Testing?) already, so it's just a matter of updating the sources you download from.
Fedora is nice but very bloated, and not all the PD externals are there yet. And RedHat/Fedora do things in their own special way, which can make it difficult for non Fedora-users to help you out. OTOH Debian is pretty standard, and shares many similarities with a lot of other distros, so you can find help in a lot more forums, etc.
Dynebolic is OK as a live CD, but pretty much impossible to reconfigure, so I'd skip it for a permanent installation unless you need something working RIGHT NOW ;-)
good luck, d.
Renato Fabbri wrote:
I´m migrating from windows to linux, but to which distro? I intend using PD, sequencers and softsynths.
A friend highly recommended fedora core 4 and the ccrma pack, but I heard about GeeXboX, dyne:bolic, and DeMuDi, which all are called "multimedia distros"..
-- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ---Oblique Strategy # 193: [blank card]