Thanks for all the answers. As some of you pointed out, of course one needs to split data and system partitions and I've been doing that since I can remember. I used to be a rolling release guy, but I've been using debian on my main workstation and ubuntu on my netbook for quite a few years already (in computer relative terms, of course). Currently I run ubuntu 14.04 on my netbook and debian 8 on my workstation. I keep it debian based because of the kxstudio repos, and also because when people design software they target the more mainstream systems, and keeping it as standard as possible makes you compatible with interesting bits and pieces of software around the web. The problem is, as anders stated, that once your distro release turns around two years of age, developers start targeting newer libraries' versions and you slowly become incompatible. But when you upgrade a fixed release distro, you are bound to break something. Specially if you compiled your own software. And by the time you need to upgrade, your system is already so custom tailored to your likings that it is a pain to start over. Hence the topic of this thread. I guess there is always a tradeoff. I'll probably dist-upgrade sometime during summer break (hey, southern hemisphere). Thanks to all for your assistance! On 12/11/17, Anders Hellquist <lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is indeed a question one have to ask from time to time. > > I have been running kxstudio for a very long time and are in the process of > changing some of my music related machines from 14.04 which is the latest > official falktx distro > Since I depend on kxstudio repos my options are limited to Debian or Ubuntu > and right now I am more inclined to go the Debian route. > > The main reason for me to switch is U-he plugins that seems to require > newer gcc API/ABI to work. Also Mixbus is freezing on the same machine so I > suspect newer libs and kernel drivers might get me a more stable > environment. > > Any valid reasons to go the Ubuntu route, ya think ? > > /Anders > > > 2017-12-10 19:36 GMT+01:00 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 13:08:54 -0500, jonetsu wrote: >> >I do not know how Linux Mint depends on Debian. >> >> My apologies for confusing you by mentioning Debian sid. IIRC nowadays >> Mint is based upon Ubuntu. The policies I mentioned are Ubuntu >> policies, let alone that the links are Ubuntu related links ;). >> However, take a look at the Debian tracker, for example >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/jackd2 . At the right side you could see >> that Debian at least is partial the upstream for Ubuntu and Ubuntu >> derivatives. >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
