A lot of distro's... which do you prefer?

[raboof]

keep a very positive atmosphere

Very important point - and it seems to be surprisingly hard to 'get right': I noticed (many years ago) that the #debian that was once so friendly got harsher over time. Now the same seems to be happening to #ubuntu. Perhaps that's just something that comes with popularity - but hopefully I'm just imagining things and the tide will turn again .

[studio32]

keep a very positive atmosphere

Very important point -

Let's put it in our vision, statement, forum rules... whatever...

[schivmeister]

Very important point - and it seems to be surprisingly hard to 'get right': I noticed (many years ago) that the #debian that was once so friendly got harsher over time. Now the same seems to be happening to #ubuntu. Perhaps that's just something that comes with popularity - but hopefully I'm just imagining things and the tide will turn again .

No, you are right - precisely what the first half of your last sentence outlines.

Hahah, talk about charisma:

Charismatic leader: "You are all Macs!"
Poor followers: "Yes, sir!"

[Martin Tarenskeen]

I'm using Planet CCRMA / Fedora. Pretty good combination. Gradually packages from CCRMA are moving to the standard Fedora repositories.

I don't see many CCRMA people here yet. I'll recommend this forum in the planet-ccrma mailing list !

[nathan]

I got my start on planet/fedora. Rock on!

[glas-noise]

I am a bit surprised that Elive isn't mentioned, for example I use Elive-gem wich comes with a low
latency kernel, I also tried 64studio, Dynebolic, Jacklab,Planet CCRMA, Ubuntu Studio and Musix, but to my opinion none off them came close to Elive. Unfortunately it isn't completely freely anymore
(only available after donation) and with the latest dev-version it seems the low-latency kernel is gone. (seems there was no interesse for multimedia use?)


So in fact I am looking for a replacement within some time, but the problem is that none off the
other available distro's I tried I really liked.
For example I don't like gnome related desktops, if you look inside top there are way too much processes going on and in non-debian distro's I always run into dependency or other troubles.
To my opinion there is no good distro out there still, so more I would ask will there ever be a good modern and light "multimedia" distro?

[thorgal]

kick out gnome or KDE and install openbox or ratpoison or fluxbox. They are light and ... well, openbox starts on an empty screen, so you may even think the 1st time that something is not booting X properly!