| Newsgroups |
gmane.comp.audio.csound.tekno |
| Message-ID |
<[email protected]> |
Thanks Josh, that's very useful advice. Is Gentoo something that could be made
to fit on one CD? I'm hoping to make it possible not to even depend on a hard
drive for gigs.
Iain
>
> On Jan 5, 2004, at 2:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> >> If you are after an optimized system, with good support for Jack, and
> >> a
> >> really nice low latency kernel, I'd vote for Gentoo. It's a bit of a
> >> pain to set up, but it works really nicely once you have gotten the
> >> hang of it.
> >
> > Thanks Josh, would this be your recommendation for both scenarios then?
>
> Well... it depends on how fast your computer is and how experienced you
> are with linux. Gentoo is kinda strange... you compile everything. No
> binaries. But the joy of this is you get to make sure that your system
> is optimized exactly how you want it. You can take full advantage of
> your processor, and compile all your programs with the supported
> libraries you want. There is a central "make.conf" file where you can
> say "USE=jack alsa -X ....." whatever and whenever an app has the
> option, it will try to compile it with jack and alsa support, without
> any X11 (for your barebones box). After setting this stuff, installing
> things is easy...
>
> emerge ardour snd ecasound ----no csound though :(
>
> and it will be built to spec. Fun stuff.
>
> The only problem is, it doesn't do a whole lot of hand holding. You
> have to get down and dirty setting things up, but you learn a whole lot
> about linux in the process. Gentoo has a really good forum
> (forums.gentoo.org) where you can get your questions answered, and
> there is also a good irc channel (#[email protected])
>
> So... would I recomend it? Depends. Try it on the stripped down box
> and see what you think.
>
> >> I used Planet CCRMA for a few days, but I quickly fell into redhat
> >> hell
> >> and installed Gentoo over the whole thing.
> >
> > If you don't mind, what is red hat hell?
>
> Well, redhat doesn't come with so many packages... many things that you
> want and need aren't included so you have to go to other sources to get
> them. When you try to install, it will need some other package, and
> you have to search around for another one... Eventually it drives you
> insane if you are used to using a distro like gentoo or debian that has
> all of these packages in the first place, and that can be installed
> with a single command (emerge XXX, or apt-get XXX)
>
> If gentoo turns out to be too much work for you, I'd recommend the
> debian route.
>
> Redhat is easy to get started with (the installer is first class) but
> when you want to do anything tricky things quickly fall apart (at least
> for me).
>
> ~josh
>
> _______________________________________________
> csoundtekno mailing list
> [email protected]
>
> Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options:
> http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno
>
_______________________________________________
csoundtekno mailing list
[email protected]
Subscribe, unsubscribe, change mailing list options:
http://plot.bek.no/mailman/listinfo/csoundtekno