[ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Folks... How are you ? Hope my mail finds you all in best of health and spirits... Quick Question: Will Ubuntu-studio run with CentOS with GUI packages installed ? -- I have a centos distro with text only shell, minus GUIs; and would prefer not to reformat that partition to put Ubuntu there.

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nalin Savara writes: [...] Quick Question: Will Ubuntu-studio run with CentOS with GUI packages installed ? - -- I have a centos distro with text only shell, minus GUIs; and would prefer not to reformat that partition to put Ubuntu there. #

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Nalin Savara
To rephrase my question: (a) Are there any specific package dependancies which I will need to install on my CentOS install before I install ubuntu-studio ? (b) (based on experience), would it be recommended to skip trying to get ubuntu-studio to run with CentOS--- and instead run it with a

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Linux Lingam
oh nalin, your question is a tad funny. you see, ubuntustudio is a complete and independent linux distro. when you wish to run it in centos, your question either implies a) you mistake it for a package, or b) you wish to run it in a virtual environment. in case a) no it's a distro b) don't

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread gajendra khanna
Hi Nalin To my knowledge both are not binary compatible and infact use different type of packages. (centos has rpm and ubuntu deb packages). You'll have to make a separate partition and have to make a dual boot with your centos according to me. Regards Gajendra

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 18 Sep 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: Quick Question: Will Ubuntu-studio run with CentOS with GUI packages installed ? Suggest you install Ubuntu studio on a separate partition OR remove CentOS if you are not using it much. Even though both are Linux distros, their package management

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 18 Sep 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: Quick Question: Will Ubuntu-studio run with CentOS with GUI packages installed ? Suggest you install Ubuntu studio on a separate partition OR remove CentOS if you are not

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Nalin Savara
Am quoting relevant replies to summarize. Linux Lingam wrote: your question is a tad funny. you see, ubuntustudio is a complete and independent linux distro. when you wish to run it in centos, your question either implies a) you mistake it for a package, or b) you wish to run it in a virtual

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 18 Sep 2008, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: install Ubuntu Studio, just select the package in Synaptic and entire suite of multimedia applications will be installed. Though I would suggest if someone is already aware of software to be used install Please see Niyam's comment about

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Please see Niyam's comment about latency. IIRC, the Ubuntustudio kernel is optimized for multimedia apps. -- Arun Khan I used both and its just the software suite. Both use same kernel yes with one difference -- Real Time kernel. All you need to do on Ubuntu is to install real time kernel

Re: [ilugd] question abt UbuntuStudio compatibility with CentOS distro...

2008-09-18 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please see Niyam's comment about latency. IIRC, the Ubuntustudio kernel is optimized for multimedia apps. -- Arun Khan This page could be of great help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudioPreparation