On 20/02/12 01:39, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
On 02/17/12 21:43, Andy Farnell wrote:
As Ubuntu continues to get heavier I heartily recommend
you look at stock Debian Squeeze with a lite window manager
if you want to use the machine for artistic work, rather than
as a general purpose desktop.
as a system administrator i think "Debian squeeze" is a great distribution to
run my servers.
as an artist working with multimedia content, i would rather go with something
more "experimental", namely "Debian wheezy" (aka "testing").
in reality i usually run "Debian wheezy/sid" (aka "testing/unstable"), but then
i'm doing debian development and the like (so this might be a bit too "hot" for
ordinary users)
wheezy usually has up-to-data packages, e.g. you get Pd-0.43.1
note however, that since testing is a moving target, you might get masses of
updates every other week.
and you can make installing and maintaining "Debian wheezy/sid" quite a bit
easier by using aptosid to install it, I've found their installer and kernel
quite good at recognising new hardware, and their manual pages very helpful in
describing basic methods to configure Debian. The xfce version is reasonably
minimal.
They install almost pure Debian sid, with their own kernel (but switching to the
stock debian one, or something else, is quite possible) ... while maintaining a
small repository of current bugfixes, keeping a few packages on hold while their
updates are problematic, and maintaining a good warning system for updates.
http://aptosid.com/
Simon
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