[PD] PD/Audio in redhat or suse

[Ian Smith-Heisters]

ix at replic.net wrote:
> afaik - Ubuntu takes a "snapshot" of debian-unstable every 6 months. only a few selected apps are updated more often (say Firefox, that sort of thing). whatever audio packages guenter and agnula ppl etc maintain for debian are praobably not on that short-list. plus, it does not have KDE..
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It should be possible to access the debian SID repository from Ubuntu 
for certain applications, like PD and KDE. Then the main advantage of 
Ubuntu is probably its installation, which I hear is great (though I've 
personally had nothing but trouble).

The main gripe I hear about debian is its installation. It can be hairy, 
but I've personally never had a problem, and its new installer is even 
better at auto-detection.

Aside from that, the thing that bothers me about debian is the 
difficulty of making packages, as compared to, say, arch-linux. But it 
sounds like that's not going to be an issue for João.

...and another 2 cents.

-I

> chances are, youre going to end up compiling from source anyways, to get a patch or newer version of something that youre interested in. gentoo is the easiest by far for this, since usually you dont even have to get a tarball as an ebuild proably already exists unless the release is 3 seconds old.. for slower machines, debian unstable does not require compiling thigns you dont WANT to compile, but still has lots of niceties like 'make-kpkg' to make things easier...i found it impossible to fix basic things on suse that werent configured right by the automated/GUI tools it included..
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