Confessions of a Distro Hopper?
About 2 weeks ago in a possibly hasty maneuver, I torched my / partition of slackware 12.2
and replaced it with Fedora 10. At the time I had had enough of compiling my own applications and resolving my own dependencies. I also came off of patching and compiling my own real-time 2.6.29.6 kernel which seemed to go well, yet I was still having audio sync problems.
If I had dug in and tried to figure out why this was happening, I would have found out what I know now, that I had seen this problem a few months ago and resolved it by clearing some HD space on the partition I was recording to.
Am I devastated by this news?
Not really.
Since installing F10, I have enjoyed being able to 'yum install' almost any app.
I also like the fact that I can run apps like gwibber without searching out all the dependencies, so I do appreciate the time saving aspect but, where I am not happy is that the audio packages are DUSTY. Which meant that I had gone back to the same sync issues between Ardour and Hydrogen that were solved by running more current versions of both.
Sigh - so it appears I am no further ahead - in some regards I'm further behind. I have all these audio apps to choose from, but I still find myself only using Ardour and Hydrogen -which would be fine, but they don't stay in sync.
So - what is ahead in the future. I'm not sure...
I have compiled a more current version of Hydrogen and will do the same for Ardour. But I'm not sold on Fedora 10. After using the GRML live CD, I think running a stripped down Debian Testing system might be the way to go. Either way, I will do a little more thinking before my next move as the problem here isn't really Slackware or Fedora necessarily, but my haste in jumping to the next thing before trying to fully resolve the trouble on the existing platform.
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