Re: [Rosegarden-user] OS for music workstation with Rosegarden

[Thanos T. <th...@si...>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:38:21AM +0000, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 Jan 2005 11:07, Thanos Tsouanas wrote:
> > Well the ready lowlatency kernel is good but the up2date things
> > on "static" oses is not really up2date.  After you install it,
> > what?  You have to keep trace of it yourself..
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Not really.  If the bug that drives you crazy is in the version
that shipped with the static distro, I dont't think you want to
wait 6 months.  You'll pretty much have to install it by hand
and _do_ go through the trouble, so it should be better to have
a ports system or a quite good packaging one.

Unfortunately no linux has one, but gentoo is close and
debian/slackware packages might be ok as well.

Also the 'doing compile on x y and z for three days', is an
extreme exaggeration.  Things are not bad, in fact they are
good.  I prefer compiling some software my way than using
defaults in most cases.  Of course, _IF_ it makes sense.  The 'I
compile everything because its cool/faster that way' stance is
rather stupid..  Some optimization can be achieved, and is
needed.  You obviously haven't worked with a descent ports
system..

Thanks for the answers again..

P.S.  Not going to pay any vendor for free software.. :)

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