Hola Hiran Watson:

What's the difference between the two install kernels (2.6.15.3-rt-musix & 2.6.13-1-multimedia)?

Hi, one was compiled here, the other was taken from DeMuDi... newer kernels must have better hardware support, but we are just learning how to do the things right.

That is, do the name endings mean anything different, or is the only difference the version number of the kernel?

Both things. "multimedia" is from Debian Multimedia Distribution

Thanks. Also, I was looking through the wiki at the different installation types, and what's the main difference between beginner and debian installation?

Begginer: it acts almost as the live-cd boot up process

From what I read on the wiki, the beginner installation will do a hardware recognition when booting, while the debian installation won't.

That's right, but we must correct this page: it's wrong (old): now the Debian way is different, but it makes hardware detection.

Is that the only difference?

Yes: the boot up scripts: /etc/rcS.d /etc/rc(#).d/

Also, is it hard to set up new hardware manually?

It depends on many things... but most of the hardware set up is done automatically

I'd still consider myself a newbie/intermediate when it comes to linux, especially things like adding new hardware, and so while I'd like to go through the debian installation, is it hard to set up new hardware afterward - especially an external usb soundcard, and a midi keyboard/controller?

No: the system must install them automatically

Thanks.

God bless Hiran

Sorry about my ugly english!

On 3/30/06, Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail <[email protected]> wrote:

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http://www.musix.org.ar

Musix GNU+Linux 0.39 has been released!

This is a highly experimental version.

We've developed it with the intention of testing the latest versions of many applications. 0.39 will probably run better in some systems than previous versions of Musix. We really apreciatte bug and test reports!

=What's new in Musix 0.39=

* Rosegarden4 1.2.3 (Musix is the first distro to provide this version. Thanks to Silvan and Rosegarden's Great Team!) * Xorg 6.9 (Thank you Adrian P. for the adaption of it) * 4 Kernels: 2.6.15.2 (live-cd boot kernel) 2.6.15.4 (live-cd boot kernel with realtime patch) 2.6.15.3-rt-musix (not live-cd bootable. must be installed to hdd. realtime-patched) 2.6.13-1-multimedia (not live-cd bootable. must be installed to hdd. realtime-patched) * Some changes in the visual aspect: * KDE 3.5.1 * All sources available at www.gnu.org * eq-xmms-musix modified by Pardo (recommended) * hundreds of updates software packages * lots of bug fixes, and more.

= Known issues =

* Installation: After installation only kernels 2.6.15.3 and 2.6.13 are bootable. Once there the system should create the necesary stuff so it is able to boot other kernels. If this does not happen, PLEASE report it. * KDM (desktop manager) takes a lot to start. * Possible SATA hdd incompatibility * Kernel 2.6.15.4 (with realtime) makes reading in low-memory (128mb ram) systems to be really slow, becase it was not possible to compile it with unionfs support, contrary to 2.6.15.2 which has no issues with this.

= Thanks and acknowledgements =

* To those who have been there always, and those who recently joined, but I want to give a special one to Tapani Raikkonen who compiled the live-cd kernels and taught me lots of things about it.

-- Marcos Guglielmetti Director del desarrollo de Musix GNU+Linux (www.musix.org.ar) (www.pc-musica.com.ar/musix) (ftp://musix.ourproject.org/pub/musix/) __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar

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