[PD] [OT] operating systems?

[Brian Redfern]

I've found redhat 8.0 with the planet ccrma packages is the easiest way t
go for me.

http://www.brianredfern.org

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Christian Klippel wrote:

> hello chad,
> 
> Am Sonntag, 16. März 2003 21:56 schrieb Chad Wood:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm going to switch my laptop from Windows to Linux in a couple months.  I
> > just wanted to know which distributions, desktop environments, etc. you all
> > use.  Are some distributions of Linux more flexible with the various
> > hardware that people use (MIDI, USB, etc)?  Thanks so much!
> >
> > Chad
> 
> if you are new to linux, i would suggest a suse linux distro. suse is, in my 
> opinion, a very easy to install and set-up linux distro. it is also very 
> complete regarding the software (7 cd's and 1 dvd). one drawback with suse 
> is, that it is relatively bloated. that means, with a standard install you 
> get lots of stuff and services installed you normally dont need/want.
> thus it is always a good idea to "clean up" a fresh installed suse....
> 
> if you already have some experience with linux, you may try out debian.
> the apt package management is by far the easiest i have seen yet.
> it also has serveral kernels, also with lowlatency patches, available.
> and, debian already has a pd and gem package (tough not the newest....)
> to install something, you simply type "apt-get install <appname>" and there 
> you go. updating a debian system also is just a single commandline.
> aptitude is a nice menu-driven textinterface to that.
> 
> regardless of the distro you are going to use, as desktop i highly recommend 
> kde 3.1. it has a great functionality, the apps really share a common look 
> (not like gnome, where it often happens that for example the menues are 
> differently placed and layouted in the different gnome apps).
> also, kde has a great multimedia support in means of file-handling.
> you can directly grab cd's and compress them to ogg or mp3 by just dragging 
> the files somewhere, for example. also, kde allows the most flexible 
> configuration for the look and feel, so for beginners it can really look 
> almost exactly like windows. that way you will get familiar with it faster.
> or like a mac, with the menubar at top and the like... (the one i prefer)
> last but not least, the internationalization of the kde apps is very good.
> 
> greets,
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> 
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