-----Original Message----- From: Frank Barknecht [mailto:fbar@footils.org]
want to use it...
But Debian (unstable/experimental) has the best, most up-to-date and complete Pd and Pd external packages almost right from the CVS. ;)
Which is the only reason I have decided to go Debian.
I did as Derek Mentioned and started off with RH9 and planet CCRMA.
However until a few days ago they were still on version .36. Verion .37 is loosely supported with the Fedora stuff on planet, but this was after I made my switch to Debian. That being said, the install was smoother than butter, everything went perfect. I can't give the ccrma guys enough props.
The install was pretty painless using woody 3.0r1. However on Monday
a version of Sarge was released with the new installer, this may or may not be easier to use. Woody installed painlessly (ok not so painless, it was completely clueless about my now ancient apple monitor, but that only took some mild googling to find the manuals and the Vsync and Hsync stuff) with 2.2 kernel (not real time of course). I then used the Agnula packages (www.agnula.org) to upgrade my kernel and add alsa support for my midiman 4/10. This also went well. What has been slightly more painful has been getting the most recent packages onto CD (this machine has no net access). I have spent the last 2 days downloading all 24 testing/unstable disks (16 gigs!!!! Gotta love jigdo and a 100mbs pipe), so I can do a nice app upgrade this weekend.
m.
Hallo, Matthew Allen hat gesagt: // Matthew Allen wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Frank Barknecht [mailto:fbar@footils.org]
want to use it...
But Debian (unstable/experimental) has the best, most up-to-date and complete Pd and Pd external packages almost right from the CVS. ;)
Which is the only reason I have decided to go Debian.
I did as Derek Mentioned and started off with RH9 and planet CCRMA. However until a few days ago they were still on version .36. Verion .37 is loosely supported with the Fedora stuff on planet, but this was after I made my switch to Debian. That being said, the install was smoother than butter, everything went perfect. I can't give the ccrma guys enough props.
... and actualy it's only one guy!
Just to make it clean: In no way I intend not to praise Fernando's work on the Planet. And RedHat/Fedora might be easier to get started with, too, than Debian.
But then, Debian is getting more user-friendly, too. And it often is the one distribution, many eperienced users like to stay with, once installed.
On my main machine I run a Debian installation that is now several years old, survived many changes of harddisk, mainboard and CPU (it was first installed on a 486!). I just upgraded it regularily, but never reinstalled it.
That's why the ease-of-use of the first-install process doesn't matter a single bit to me. For others this probably is more important, but as Debian allows for (nearly) painless upgrades, this isn't relevant in the long run. At least that's my opinion and experience.
To run Pd any distribution will do a great job.
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, 'Frank Barknecht' wrote:
That's why the ease-of-use of the first-install process doesn't matter a single bit to me. For others this probably is more important, but as Debian allows for (nearly) painless upgrades, this isn't relevant in the long run. At least that's my opinion and experience.
An easy way to install Debian is using a knoppix CD. If you do a harddisk install of that only a few questions are asked, everything is autodetected. Later on you can follow the Debian apt-get repository.
Guenter
To run Pd any distribution will do a great job.
ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
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