linux: Agnula or Fedora

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I have some experience with fedora. I wanted to reinstall it on my computer but I thought about trying agnula.
Wich one would be the best?
Should I install fedora and download the music program I need?
Or should I download the Agnula.

What I do... Some basic music recording, internet, basic office and some photo edition.

Fedora is quite standard, I mean I can find lots of program for it in rpms. It's also easy to install and pretty easy to use.
I don't know anything about agnula except that it's made for music recording and that it crash once in while.

Thank you


Yvon
 
I like them both.

Fedora has a relatively quick development cycle, but also a fairly short lifespan: a particular release of Fedora is no longer supported after about 18 months.

Agnula is *designed* for media applications and comes ready to go with a variety of cool audio tools. Its much easier to get up and running with Ardour, etc. Agnula has quite a bit less user support, but its also based on Debian... so there is plenty of software (.deb) packages for it and its stable.

I ran Agnula for a while on a second partition of my laptop. I liked it a lot- the OS itself didn't crash, but the buggy, half-done music apps sometimes did. I tried Fedora, too, but had more trouble than I wanted to deal with getting Jack on other audio apps running.

I'd try Agnula before going back to Fedora. If you don't like it, its only a couple hours to turn your system around with Fedora on it.

Take care,
Chris
 
in my very brief experience with linux, i found that i liked ubuntu better than fedora core 4. fedora is good and there is a lot of support for it, but i found that ubuntu is much easier to set up and controll dependencies with. You can find a lot of programs with ubuntu's repositories, once you endable multiverse

maybe something else to consider anyways...
 
Tried Fedora but ended up like minofifa and Chris. Endless mess of missing libs, wrong versions etc when trying to do audio.

Then tried Planet CCRMA. This is a fedora based distro specially for sound. As long as you stay within the packages they provide it works very well. But once I wanted to add something they didn't provide the thing went bust.

Now all this could have been aided by my unexperience with linux...

Switched to Gentoo and never looked back. It took me 2 tries to install it the first time (2 years ago now), but ever since I haven't had a problem. And installing on this new pc went first-time-right. Not every audio app is in their repository, but when you add one to the system, it doesn't go "puff".

But if you are very new to linux and really want audio, then Planet CCRMA is the place to start. You might outgrow it with time, but it will prepare you and the chance for it to work are larger than most other routes.

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
 
Gentoo is a bit tough if you're new to Linux (although it does rock - I agree!).

I'm with minofifa and suggest Ubuntu if you have no previous *nix experience.
Have fun!
 
I also liked Ubuntu. I had trouble installing Ardour on it, though. It rocked for everything else.

It was just more trouble than I had time to throw at the thing having fully functional, easy to use Mac and WinXP machines. Agnula definately has the advantage in the "install-and-go" category for media.

Anyway- kudos for all the linux heads. I love it, but its still not quite up to snuff, IMO. I wish it was.

-Chris
 
thanks everyone, I downloaded both, ubuntu and agnula, I don't know which one I will install yet!
I might do that tonight though.
 
Heh, I tried installing Gentoo last year when I was a CS major, and I was in way over my head, even though I've been a Linux user on and off for 4 years. It didn't work, and I didn't want to bother trying a second time, so I installed Debian again. Not particularly audio friendly, but does most everything else well.
 
Funny how everyone seems to have problems with gentoo while for me it is the only one that actually worked and I didn't have any linux experience. Don't even have more than scratched the surface of linux, so I'm far from an expert.

But if you have no experience with linux and want to run audio: then stay with one of the specialised distros. Don't try to get a general purpose distro to do it, it will give problems. (that doesn't mean it can't be done, but it will take more time and troubleshooting)

As for what audio distros (and other soft) there are: http://sound.condorow.net/
 
I'd use Fedora over that other distro. I'm I don't even remember the name as I type this. Check distrowatch.org for the most popular Linux distros.

I used RH 9 - FC4 and finally switched to SUSE when v9.3 came out. Try the SUSE live CD before you try a new flavor of Linux. SUSE's main advantage is that it has YaST. YaST is like the Windows control panel on steroids. Install/remove apps, online updates, hardware configuration. And the greatest thing about v9.3 is that everything just works. It takes almost no configuration on your end and you have the most common tools at your disposal. It also comes with Audacity, so you can record right out of the box.

http://www.novell.com/products/suselinux/
 
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