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Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of 2010-05-15 02:38:15 +0200:

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> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:12 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:

> > On 14 May 2010 at 22:40, Jean-Baptiste Mestelan  wrote:

> >

> > > On 14 May 2010 19:03, Folderol  wrote:

> > > > Don't forger 64studio either

> > > > ... which I believe is on the verge of a new release :)

> > >

> > > OK, all in all, don't forget to check

> > > http://www.linux-sound.org/distro.html

> >

> > Yeah, but some of that is a little outdated.  For instance, Thac's

> > RPMs for Mandrake, is a bit old.  Mandrake became Mandriva, and Thac

> > went on to create PCLinuxOS as an alternative.

> >

> > Thanks tho....

> >

> > --

> For those who want the latest of just about everything, Arch is not too

> bad. More DIY from the audio perspective though, there IS an audio repo

> but I think it seriously lacks manpower to do updating. I do have 40+

> packages, more than half audio-related which I 'compile from source',

> but Arch's AUR (user-submitted PKGBUILDs to generate packages) makes

> that easy except for the wait-time of compiling, dependency-checking and

> such are all done in the PKGBUILD.

It's quite contrary to what the thread starter wants though. He wants a

distro that is ready for audio production without much setup. Arch has

its strengths, I use it and love it, but it takes time to set it up and

configure everything. Its flexibility is its weakness :)

-- 
Regards,

Philipp
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