JohnS
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Posted: Mar. 27 2005,07:04 |
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I've been using DSL for several months now for use as a music server/client with small dedicated computers. Today I decided to try Agnula which is billed as the end all of linux music distros.
Since I was familiar with DSL I decided to try the Debian version, this thing is huge. It takes forever to download and install (even with a high speed broadband connection) And then it set itself up as 1024x768, which is no good since I'm using it with a small 800x600 LCD sreen. So I had to bring the box (very tiny box BTW) into the room with the main computer and plug it into the main CRT display so I could see hat I was doing. There is nothing I could find like xsetup, I had to manually find the X files and configure stuff by hand. Then the ethernet didn't work, again I had to tweak the config files by hand. DSL got the net connection automatically. Then I tried a pen drive, no go, it doesn't have hotplug, I had to put in the pendrive and reeboot so it would recognize it, then manually edit fstab!
It even did a worse job of autodetecting and configuring the USB audio device, this is what it is supposed to be GOOD at and DSL was better!
There are two things it has going for it, it has the low latency kernel patches, and its a later kernel which has some fixes to make hotplug play nice with some USB sound devices. I can get around the hotplug issue with DSL and for what I'm doing the low latency issue is not a big deal. Agnula has TONS of audio applications all bundled into itself, which does beat finding and installing them, but the OS side of things stinks! DSL is SO much easier to install and use. For my case where I'm using it more as an embedded appliance type role raher than studio workstation environment, DSL blows Agnula out of the water.
Thanks for making it available.
John S.
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