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>
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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. I think
GTK+ 2.x and related libraries had some serious problems dealing with
scandinavian characters at a time, <br>
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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 usable.<br>
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 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>
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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>
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-kkrapu<br>
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