I moved straight to debian (I had a 1/2 day planet ccrma detour)
from win2k about a month ago. I didn't necessarily fall off a cliff, but sometimes I feel like I'm rolling down one very quickly.
I would suggest using some short cuts. I originally installed 3.01
(woody release 1) and tried to recompile the kernel with alsa support. I read docs as literature, I figured it was no problem. 2 days later I was downloading the Demudi packages from the Agnula project. This worked great for a couple of weekends, but I figured I would do an upgrade to get v .37 from CVS. The machine upgrade killed my system (I think it fried LILO) so I spent most of this weekend re-installing stuff. 2 things I took away from this as a linux newbie.
- always have a boot floopy handy
- if you have old obscure hardware that X cares about (mouse, keyboard
monitor/ Video card) and you spend 4 or 5 days building a usable XF86 config file, you should maybe copy that little old text file to a floppy, or maybe send a mail with it as the body of the message. That way when the apt-get dist-upgrade fries say, LILO you can then just quickly re-install stuff and copy over you X window config file, instead of spending another day tracking down your 12 year old monitor's specs.
-----Original Message----- From: Jean Jacques [mailto:jj@wanadoo.fr] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 12:30 AM Cc: pd-list@iem.at Subject: [OT] [PD] (Facts Please !) a mac or pc with Linux for PD
Thank you everyone for your contribution !
I know that i may fall of a cliff on my road to Debian, but i'm not looking for the easy way, i really want to stop using proprietary softwares that's why i'm going linux, i'm ready to invest time on it ! I plan to install PD + Gem and make music !