On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jørn Lomax <northlomax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/04/2012 08:08 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >> >> 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?' > > > If the spins is approved as is, both the liveuser and the user craeted on > install will belong to both the jackuser and audio group. The liveuser is > pretty much sure to be OK, but to make the created user belong to them uses > a very ugly hack and might not be approved That's no big deal; most of the time I end up having to add myself to the vboxusers group anyhow. The biggest annoyance is having to log out and back in again. ;-) -- 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
