[PD] linux for pd

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

I run two systems, both dual booting w/ Windows XP Pro.

The first is Debian Sarge, which was a bit difficult to install, but has 
good covereage for PD packages with apt. Generally more difficult to 
use, but I have more control over things.

The second is Fedora Core 2 with Planet CCRMA. This was much easier to 
install, given that this rig has hardware debian doesn't support at all 
yet (apparently)--just pop the CDs in and it figured everything out. 
People keep talking about "the new Debian installer", though, and I 
don't know about that. Generally very easy to use, but I'm never quite 
sure what's going on under the hood--but it "just works", so I'm not 
complaining.

Hope that helps.

Anyone tried Ubuntu?

If you want to get all medieval and compile everything like Yves ;) , 
maybe check out Gentoo, which is what I would use if I had all the time 
in the world. I hear its package manager, emerge, is better than sex.

I started with 33 gigs to windows and 7 gigs to Linux, but I keep adding 
space to Linux and taking it away from Windows, as Linux is slowly 
replacing everything I would use Windows for. Right now I think I'm at 
25G/15G Win/Linux.

pun chik wrote:

>hi , i bought a new laptop and i want to install linux  to have both
>linux and windows in the same computer. i have 75 gg hard drive.
>im new with linux, just tried knoppix and dynebolic bootable cds for a
>while. so the question is:
>which linux version do u recommend for a noobie linux user that want to
>use it for nasty pd patching????
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>thank you
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