On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 09:16:25AM -0800, Linux Canuck wrote:


> I thought that you were a Fedora fan. Hmm. Anyway, I did install Fedora 10,
but don't use it much... for other reasons. The sound works, so I assumed that
it was fixed and, yes, I did believe the hype. As for Ubuntu and pulse audio, I
have never had a problem, but know lots of people have. It must all depend on
your sound card and driver and thus be isolated to certain users.
>

Well, fan isn't the word. I use CentOS at my job, so I use Fedora on my
laptops and workstation at work. At home, I have a FreeBSD box and a
CentOS box as a server-cum-workstation.

If it weren't part of my job to be knowledgeable about RH based distros,
I doubt I would use Fedora. Not that it's worse than others of its ilk,
but I would probably stick to the minimalist type distributions like
Arch. By minimalist, I mean the ones that give you a small default
install, have fewer unexpected dependencies, and don't do so much to
hide the command line from you. Both Fedora and Ubuntu buy the system
under GUIs, fighting you if you don't use Gnome.


> I don't like and Fedora because I can't use everything that I want to due to
limited repositories and I really hate packagekit and yum.


Hrrm, you don't like packagekit. Well, Mr. Hughes, its developer, will
probably relegate you to the ranks of the uninformed.

However, you're in pretty good company. He showed up on Fedora forums,
got banned, more or less by mistake, and went on to post on various
mailing lists about how the forums are the uninformed being instructed
by the slightly less uninformed. He feels packagekit is great, and
while, the theory behind it is good, at present, it's errm, errm....

well, let me put it this way--I suspect your blog found a large number
of people who read it and thought, "Yeah, he's right about that." :)

(I was not the one who banned him, by the way.) Basically, it's not yet
ready for prime time and Fedora, as Fedora does far too often, threw it
in there anyway. It's tied in as a dependency of so many things that
it's almost impossible to remove, though easy enough to disable.

It never really affected me as I use yum from command line and never
even tried using it.

As for Ubuntu and sound, it seemed that, like Fedora, when you don't use
Gnome, you run into trouble.


>
> My advice is to stick with ALSA until something better comes along. So far,
PulseAudio is a pass.

+1, and +1 again. Apparently it has improved somewhat, but like
packagekit, isn't ready for prime time.

Unfortunately, it seems that more and more distros are using
it.


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