3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
10:48 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I've had Linux in one form or the other since the
very early release days
(0.something). I've never found it for use as a desktop system (especially
GUI) particularly compelling. I think many folks secretly hold the same
opinion, else why the rise of products like Wine? And there are some areas
where it really is deficient--multimedia for example. Specialized apps are
another area--I've never found a really good WYSIWYG musical notation
editor for Linux.
Rosegarden is pretty good. If you're serious about computer-produced
notation you'd use Lilypond though. From what I've seen of Rosegarden
(I use hardware sequencers rather than stuff on the PC) it can export
Lilypond source files.
As far as distros go, I started with Slackware, but
have been using RH for
some time, simply because I've been using RH for some time.. It really
doesn't matter all that much--RH does tend to be very spotty in its
releases--you can often find some very old release of a package in their
distros--and they have the RH way of doing things. Debian isn't bad but
can get to be very confusing and verbose during installation--and help in
making choices is often difficult to find. I've also tried SuSE and it's
pretty good.
I'm starting to get a bit - not annoyed, exactly, not disillusioned, but
something - annoyed with Slackware recently. At least it's nice and
easy to install.
But mostly, I want to install the blasted thing and be
done with it.
You want NetBSD for that.
Others have observed the bloat in Linux and I agree.
I started running it
on an 8MB 386 and it was pretty snappy. I don't think that feat could be
reproduced with any of the current distros.
You *definitely* want NetBSD for that.
Gordon.