Re: another linux distro opinion

Thanks, I had indeed never heard of it. I'll have to check it out.

And I wait for with bated breath for the first party where I see sex, drugs,
and csound all in the same place.
As the Crystal Method said, "Let there be hope." ; )

Iain

----- Original Message -----
From: "sex, drugs, csound" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 6:06 AM
Subject: [CsndTek] another linux distro opinion


> hi community. well, about linux distros. i have
>
> alt linux [www.altlinux.com]
>
> and i love it, here's why:
>
> 0. it is easy in use (of course, a bit more complicated than mac,
> but... :) )
>
> 1. it has lots of stuff we need (i.e. alsa, jack, ardour, sequencers,
> synthesizers, wave editors, patched low latency kernels, etc, and, btw,
> csound) as precompiled rpm's.
>
> 2. i can always keep my system up-to-date and get much more software
> from online package repository [called sisyphus].
>
> at last but not least, alt linux users are happy whether they love
> kde/gnome or hate them (as i do).
>
> as i know, alt linux is not well known in western world, but it also has
> at least all basic western locales inside, so anyone who is interested
> can try it, just download iso(s) and other software that you like from
> repository.
>
> --
>
> sex, drugs, csound! [[email protected]]
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