[PD] max msp vs pd

[David Plans Casal]

On 17 Nov 2005, at 18:19, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

> I am a big fan of Debian and all its progeny.  The package  
> management is awesomely flexible and so many of the packages really  
> set themselves up these days.  Its only getting better.
>
> Ubuntu seems to be a really good way to start with Debian.

Only problem with Ubuntu is its non-debian packages (as in, they have  
their own), which may make your life a little difficult. A solution  
is to add debian sources (repositories of packages) to Ubuntu's  
Synaptic package management application, but actually, it's worth  
just using Debian from the start. Caveat: Ubuntu had some really  
smart bunnies working for it, and its install will catch most  
hardware (except Acer laptops, as reported recently here); so, unless  
you -know- your hardware is Linux supported, maybe you do want to  
start on Ubuntu first.

d

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