1. Re: questions - best PC setup (Chris Marshall) (Nevyn) A distribution designed for multimedia functions i.e. has the pre-emptive patches applied to the kernel. ********** and everything else works too! Wonders will never cease! Apart from that though, what does it offer over and above debian? From the description on the page, it limits the number of packages for it so your options are lessened. ********** It uses the debian repositories - there is no "lessening of options" - so far I havent found anything that doesnt work except that I havent tried installing Flash. ANY debian package will install and run on these machines without a problem. Occassionally some of the packages are not available for pure 64 bit systems. Also, given the name, and the emphasis on the 64 part, I'd suggest that perhaps the 32bit edition is a bit of an after thought in which case, for most users, this isn't going to be the distribution for them. *********** Well ... it IS Debian, and it installs without fuss even on my ancient Dual P Pro, and works! The Dual P Pro is running a 2.6.17-multimedia kernel built for a 486 - perfect - fast, and reliable - what else do you want? I've tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, Kanotix, Fedora, Scientific Linux, SUSE, and various other distros, and this one has given me less trouble than ANYTHING else I've tried. It behaves itself. In fact, its easier to use under Studio 64 than it was under Damn Small Linux. Gimp works, Skype works, ABiword works, Apache2 works. PHP was installed and configured by the package manager and ran without any input from me, JStudio works, QuantaPLus works, KDE doesnt crash ... and so on ... CDROM are detected when insterted into the reader - I dont have to mount and unmount them. If I remember correctly, I think it took me an hour or so to install it onto the Dual P pro. I had the 0.9.4 version previously loaded, and when Version 1 came out, the re-installation was problem free. My 32 bit machine has YET to crash since installing this distro (and I turn it off every day!). It works at least as well as a MSWindows machine in every respect, what else can I ask for? Now - what does install automatically in the 32 bit version? Ams, amSynth, ArdourGTK, Audacity, Envy24 control system for audio cards, Gnome CD master, 5 other programs for creating audio content that I dont know what they do (including JACK, and JAMin), Rosegarden, Sound juicer, Blender 3D Modeller (which works out of the box), CinePaint, Gimp, Inkscape Vector Illustrator, Scribus, KToon for creating 2D animations. Bluefish editor, Ekiga Softphone, Firfox, GAIM, gFTP, ABIWORD, Gnumeric spreadsheet. I'm not sure what else I would need. Gnome is installed as the default - KDE installed fine on the Opteron - I havent tried it on the Pentium Pro. I installed Open Office on the bigger machine - it works without any issues. BlueJ and BlueJ with Netbeans installed and ran no problems on the 64 bit system. So does NetBeans 5.5. If I was a newbie (and I was not so long ago!) - this is the distribution I would choose! regards On 1/15/07, Terri Lomax <tess.lomax at aut.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I have a Pentium II, 350Mhz, 128M RAM with Windows 98. > I am about to buy a dual core Athlon or Pentium Dell PC, 1G RAM, 160G > hdd, Windows XP. > > **************** > Can I recommend Studio 64 - there is a 32 bit version and a 64 bit > version, and is Debian with extra multimedia patches and fixes. > > I am running the 32 bit version on a dual pentium pro with 512 meg RAM, > and the 64 bit version on a dual opteron with 2 gig RAM. The SMP kernels > install automatically if you have the hardware. M-Audio sound cards seem > to be automatically configured, as do Nvidia video cards. > > It installed and ran on both machines without any fuss whatsoever. > > You'll find the download here. > http://www.64studio.com/ > > the 32 bit version loads very little software by default - the 64 bit > version loads a complete suit of digital content programs. > > You need to set up the repositories in the synaptric package manager > (find suitable sites from the list of debian mirror sites). > > Set up Apache (with php, mysql etc) using the synaptic package manager - > along with any other software on the debian repositories. it all just > installs and runs. > > I found updating (apt-get update) also works flawlessly. > > To get SUN Java and other SUN software installed, install "bc" and > "Xterm" (not installed by default), reboot, and then install the sun > software in a console (root) session. > > regards > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AuckLUG mailing list > AuckLUG at linux.net.nz > http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aucklug > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AuckLUG mailing list AuckLUG at linux.net.nz http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aucklug End of AuckLUG Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11 ***************************************
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