On 02/17/12 21:43, Andy Farnell wrote:
As Ubuntu continues to get heavier I heartily recommend you look at stock Debian Squeeze with a lite window manager if you want to use the machine for artistic work, rather than as a general purpose desktop.
as a system administrator i think "Debian squeeze" is a great distribution to run my servers.
as an artist working with multimedia content, i would rather go with something more "experimental", namely "Debian wheezy" (aka "testing"). in reality i usually run "Debian wheezy/sid" (aka "testing/unstable"), but then i'm doing debian development and the like (so this might be a bit too "hot" for ordinary users)
wheezy usually has up-to-data packages, e.g. you get Pd-0.43.1
note however, that since testing is a moving target, you might get masses of updates every other week.
mfg.sv IOhannes