From: Chris C. <ca...@al...> - 2003-01-28 17:27:57
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btw, Mark Knecht wrote: > Don't know what you do on other major > distro's like Suse, or god forbid Gentoo. With SuSE you just use the SuSE DVD (or CDs). No low-latency kernel, I think, but you can get a decent consumer-grade audio experience from the standard distribution (including JACK and LADSPA and stuff). I'm sure Paul Davis would blench at the thought of running JACK without a low-latency kernel. And for Gentoo, well, you probably don't use Gentoo unless you like building things. I'm sure it's supposed to be easier to build them, though. FreeBSD's ports collection is rather similar -- everything is built from scratch when you request it -- and really it's no harder than installing binary packages: you just go to the right directory and make install. It's just much slower. Chris |