hi, i think for a linux-beginner it is the best to start with a distribution that has an easy installing process and some written documentation, because there are many new things to learn. debian maybe is not the best choice to start with. maybe choose SuSE for example or redhat. the problem with those distributions is, that they do many processes and configurations in the background and automatically which many people do not like... anyway, most linux-hardcore-freaks swear on debian, which seems to be very stable and easy to manage - if you know how. speaking for myself i still failed to setup all my hardware within a day on a debian system and changed back to suse. so i'd rather say there IS a difference in distros! marius.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Pagano" bigswift@ufl.edu To: "Andre Schmidt" andre@vju-tv.net Cc: "Dirk Offringa" dirk.offringa@free.fr; "pd-list" pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [PD] Linux question
Yes i agree distro does not matter too much, i use redhat as that was what a friend who taught me was using but i have heard good things about debian and Suse fo running audio i do recommend intsalling ALSA for your soundcard. and go to http://www.linux-sound.org/
for the smorgasbord of applications to run.
cheers~
PAt
Andre Schmidt wrote:
hi dirk,
i changed to linux couple weeks ago and got pd running yesterday (very
easy
when you know how)
i don't think which distro you use is a big matter, atleast for starters
i
would recommend suse or redhat because the install is so easy (i got suse8.1)
if you need help i'll be happy to help if i can...
cheers -andre
On Sunday 23 March 2003 09:50, Dirk Offringa wrote:
Hi
Well, I spent the last few days studying pd , and I must say that I like
it
very much indeed. The creative possibilities are very inspiring. I decided though that I should finally get into Linux as well. (Using
msw
until now). I must keep msw on my computer, so I'll do a dualboot
set-up.
Having never used Linux before, are there any preferred distributions
for
use with audio, or doesn't that matter at all?
Thanks Dirk
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