[wplug] SOUND!

[John Harrold]

Sometime in September Brandon Kuczenski assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| With regards to the "try another distro" idea, I most likely will on my
| desktop computer, despite the fact that I really like the more
| 'bread-and-butter' aspects of Debian.

I tried running Debian as a desktop a while back (2.5 years ago), and was
really turned off by it. It really wasn't so much Debian's problem, but
more my own. I was used to Redhat and really coudn't figure things out with
the amount of free time that I had. I now use only Debian on the servers
that are under my control, and I find it is amazing in that regard.

However, for a desktop system I personally believe an OS should
automatically: detect sound, recognizing usb drives, detect new hardware,
etc., I don't really think debian (the standard distro) is there yet.
There are Debian based alternatives which work really well for these types
of things. Knoppix is the first to come to mind.

Of course your mileage may vary: If you have the hardware, I think it's
easier to slap Debian on a server, use the server for nis and nfs, to store
your home directories and user information. Then put whatever is easier to
work with on your workstaion. With everything on an nis server, you can go
through a few distros rather quickly to find what works best for you.

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