[PlanetCCRMA] should I switch to Fedora Core 4? need opinions...

[Kai Krapu]

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I've been using Linux as my desktop OS for years, and have to say things
have really got forward in the last year or two. I installed Ubuntu
5.10recently and fell in love with it immediately. In a way it brought
joy back
to computing for me :) For audio work the stock Ubuntu is a horrible system
though, with serious performance issues and some other various (if only
minor) problems.

Planet CCRMA seemed such a great thing (which it is!), so I decided to
install Fedora Core 3/Planet CCRMA. Performance wise it was a great solutio=
n
as I am able to run the edge kernel in my system and do I need to tell you
latency is no more an issue! The performance with my athlon@2GHz and
Terratec EWS88MT is almost unbelievable. I've used FC3 for a couple days
now, done dist-upgrade etc. to make it up-to-date but there are some quite
old versions of some specific libraries and the whole system seems to have
lot of minor bugs, which are bearable, but makes the overall experience a
bit annoying for the user.  I think GTK+ 2.x and related libraries had some
serious problems dealing with scandinavian characters at a time,

So to the real issue... for audio work FC3/Planet CCRMA does a great job,
but for desktop use can be no match for Ubuntu. Basically I have three
options now..
1) keep on dual-booting ubuntu/fc3 (feels stupid) or try to make FC3 more
usable.
2) upgrade to FC4/Planet CCRMA ...  Is this a good combination at the time
being, or would you recommend FC3 to be used? Can FC4 compete with Ubuntu o=
n
usability and easy of use/maintance? Apt/synaptic is a great combination in
Ubuntu.
3) Try to make Ubuntu capable of doing some serious audio processing by
replacing the stock kernel etc. I'm afraid this would be quite a lot of
work, although I could perhaps migrate some parts of DeMuDi with Ubuntu?
..is there a good option 4 perhaps?

Thanks in advance, your opinions will be valued highly ;) Maybe I should
just get on with installing Fedore Core 4 and give it a try?

 -kkrapu

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I've been using Linux as my desktop OS for years, and have to say
things have really got forward in the last year or two. I installed
Ubuntu 5.10 recently and fell in love with it immediately. In a way it
brought joy back to computing for me :) For audio work the stock Ubuntu
is a horrible system though, with serious performance issues and some
other various (if only minor) problems.<br>
<br>
Planet CCRMA seemed such a great thing (which it is!), so I decided to
install Fedora Core 3/Planet CCRMA. Performance wise it was a great
solution as I am able to run the edge kernel in my system and do I need
to tell you latency is no more an issue! The performance with my
athlon@2GHz and Terratec EWS88MT is almost unbelievable. I've used FC3
for a couple days now, done dist-upgrade etc. to make it up-to-date but
there are some quite old versions of some specific libraries and the
whole system seems to have lot of minor bugs, which are bearable, but
makes the overall experience a bit annoying for the user.&nbsp; I think
GTK+ 2.x and related libraries had some serious problems dealing with
scandinavian characters at a time, <br>
<br>
So to the real issue... for audio work FC3/Planet CCRMA does a great
job, but for desktop use can be no match for Ubuntu. Basically I have
three options now.. <br>
1) keep on dual-booting ubuntu/fc3 (feels stupid) or try to make FC3 more u=
sable.<br>
2) upgrade to FC4/Planet CCRMA ...&nbsp; Is this a good combination at
the time being, or would you recommend FC3 to be used? Can FC4 compete
with Ubuntu on usability and easy of use/maintance? Apt/synaptic is a
great combination in Ubuntu. <br>
3) Try to make Ubuntu capable of doing some serious audio processing by
replacing the stock kernel etc. I'm afraid this would be quite a lot of
work, although I could perhaps migrate some parts of DeMuDi with Ubuntu?<br=
>
..is there a good option 4 perhaps? <br>
<br>
Thanks in advance, your opinions will be valued highly ;) Maybe I
should just get on with installing Fedore Core 4 and give it a try?<br>
<br>
&nbsp;-kkrapu<br>
<br>

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