RE: [microsound] Linux questions Michal Seta Off topic

[logic7 <logic.7@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mandrake is, by far, the easiest distribution to install. It DOES install a
ton of stuff you won't ever use on your machine if you go with all of the
defaults (I once sat for 5 hours unselecting stuff to install and got
Mandrake to install in 700MB instead of the near 3GB it threatened me with
initially!).

If you have a windows install on the same machine(fat16/32 partition only!),
you can run many of your audio apps from within Linux. I ran SoundForge and,
if memorey servers me correctly, Reaktor using WINE (win32 API emulator).

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Holzer [mailto:derek@xxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:14 PM
To: microsound; cray
Subject: Re: [microsound] Linux questions Michal Seta Off topic

hi ross,

not to butt in, but...

i ain't the biggest expert [in fact, i am almost a total newbie :-) ], but i
have been spending quite a bit of time in the same getting-into-linux
process,
and these are the few couple of tips i can offer right now:

1) red hat is easy to install, but in the same way as windows is... it gives
you a hell of a lot of what you don't want, and makes it difficult to
customize.

2) don't know about mandrake, but debian is the exact opposite from RH:
gives
you only what you want, but after quite a struggle. great if you wanna know
EVERYTHING about your computer... think about it a bit like a craftsman that
understands his or her tool completely, rather than a weekend hobbiest
diddling
around with nuts and bolts.

3) gentoo is supposed to be a very well developed distro. but then again a
gentoo developer whispered that in my ear last weekend... :-)

4) last and MOST IMPORTANT: if you are a multimedia artist [and i know you
are!], you may want to check out the DeMuDi. this is a Debian-based distro
designed specifically for artists [more specifically--for sound artists]
that
is due for 1.0 release nov 30. all the sound packages and drivers will be
included native, and it also gives you a chance to participate in something
that Linux specializes in: a user-driven development community [ps.. i know
from the Audio Mulch list that this is also something you dig...]

see: http://www.demudi.org/

good luck!
d.

Quoting cray <amnesia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Michal
>
> I am interested in putting Linux on my Desktop .
>
> If you could contact me amnesia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> id love to talk to you about Linux and music apps, or if you feel the
group
> may be interested
>  please mail to the list.
>
> I have read about Mandrake 9 being a good starter...very keen.
>
> Ross
> CRAY

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