On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Brendan Jones <brendan.jones.it@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/03/2012 07:16 PM, Christopher Antila wrote: >> We have a "Musicians" beat under the "What's New in Fedora for Specific >> Audiences" >> category, but I'm not sure what to say. Why would musicians choose Fedora >> Jam over >> regular Fedora? Or over, say, kxstudio? > > > That's a really good question. At the moment without different themes all we > have is a threadirq enabled Fedora with almost all of the audio packages. IT > is almost impossible to have a working audio distro out of the box when so > much configuration is required on the hardware side. If it was easy to do it > would have been done already ;) > > kxstudio packages things which are really not meant to be packaged and also > have exclusive access to the TAL-* plugin source code and ships them as > binaries (maybe I should just contact the author myself). kxstudio also > packages and releases software against upstreams wishes which is something I > won't do (examples are Ardour 3 and Ingen). I've been promised a release of > Ingen by the end of Septmeber and already have all the dependencies in > place, but we will see. I'm not going to nag upstream about that or we'll > never see it. > > The maintainer of AV Linux just threw the towel in (it was 32bit only > anyway) so we may pick up some people exiting there. I'm not convinced 64Studio is moving forward either, and the openSUSE-based JAD (Jack Audio Distribution) died a few years ago. It's down to "us" and Ubuntu Studio at this point, I suspect. I picked Fedora over Ubuntu primarily because of the Stanford / Planet CCRMA "native" Lisp tool chain - Common Music, Common Lisp Music, Common Music Notation and SND. Everything else works pretty much the same on any Linux and has the same intellectual property gotchas on any Linux. >> - - - JACK installed and enabled/integrated by default (what's the best >> word?) Are you trying to say, 'the "jackuser" group is there and "liveuser" is a member?' Rosegarden also wants the "snd-seq-midi" kernel module loaded when it comes up. >> - - can run audio-optimized OS without installing it (theoretically) >> - - - features the "latest and greatest" FOSS audio software >> - - - SuperCollider and PureData are moved from PlanetCCRMA to Fedora >> proper > > Soon I hope. And a free-as-in-freedom Qtractor moved from RPMFusion? ;-) -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://j.mp/QCsXOr How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
