Yes ... long, long ago there was Agnula, DeMuDi and ReMuDi based on Debian and Red Hat. Then there was JAD (Jack Audio Distribution) based on openSUSE. JAD died, but there are still three or four Debian/Ubuntu based audio distros and Fedora Jam + Planet CCRMA. I went with Fedora (Jam) because of Planet CCRMA, mostly the Lisp-based tools. I don't think in this day and age I need the real-time kernel, but it's nice to know it's there. And I prefer not to invoke non-free repositories like RPM Fusion (Fedora) or Packman (openSUSE). This may all be moot - where I see the action these days is Web Audio and the battle for hearts and minds of JavaScript programmers between Firefox and Chrome. I've looked at Web Audio and Mozilla's asm.js and it seems to me that I could do just about everything I can do in CSound, PureData, ChucK or the Planet CCRMA synthesis tools in JavaScript in either browser. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/18/2014 07:15 AM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote: >>> >>> On 2014-01-18 05:21, Brendan Jones wrote: >> >> >>>> This hasn't happened. I'm too busy to blog, promote, berate the >>>> goodness of the Jam etc. Maybe someone else is. Maybe we are not >>>> promoting ourselves enough? I don't know. Maybe we are being lazy. > > > Well, there are several other options out there now. There used to be more > audio/music/sound users in the (RedHat first, then) Fedora land a while > back. My guess is that many migrated away (many reasons), and once in a > different distribution it would be next to impossible to bring them back. > > How to attract new users? I don't know. What worked for me when Planet CCRMA > started was just word of mouth, that is, happy users telling others it was > working for them. I don't see many posts that mention Fedora when somebody > asks in the lau/lad lists (Brendan is an exception, of course)... > > [MUNCH] > >> What I would like to see is that I could do something like: >> >> # sudo yum groupinstall "Fedora Jam" >> >> to install a nice selection of must-have music production software, like >> what is now in the Fedora Jam spin, after installing the Fedora version >> of my choice. > > > That would be very useful. I used to do something like that in my Planet > CCRMA repository but I used a meta package (so, installing planetccrma-apps > would bring in all the goodies, at least the ones I deemed "important"). A > group (or groups) would be the right way to do it. > > Anyway, as usual, kudos to Brendan and the others that put so much effort in > the spin. Don't get discouraged! > -- Fernando > > [*] BTW, a very long time ago (Fedora 3 & 4) I did create a set of Planet > CCRMA installer disks which included all of Fedora and the most important > audio and music packages (it even installed and booted the rt patched > kernel!). It was something very similar to a spin, but it was not official > and was outside of the Fedora world. I admit that I did not advertise its > existence a lot, but it did not prove to be popular and I stopped after > those two releases - it was a LOT of work... > > _______________________________________________ > music mailing list > music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism on a Stick http://j.mp/CompJournoStickOverview My poltergeist can beat up your zeitgeist. _______________________________________________ music mailing list music@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/music
