On Thursday 02 February 2006 15:51, Dana Olson was like: > On 2/2/06, tim hall <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 17:08, Lee Revell was like: > > > A better question would be, why is Demudi still Debian based rather > > > than Ubuntu based? > > > > Because DeMuDi IS Debian. If it was based on Ubuntu it would be UbMuDi, > > which is essentially what Dana is doing. > > I'm just making a wiki with howtos, at least at this point in time. I > don't know how to make a real .deb package, nevermind repackage an > entire distro. OK, I stand corrected. This is basically what I've been doing with DeMuDi. I only have half a clue about packaging myself, which I have never attempted to put into practice. > > The DeMuDi-1.2.1 live CD used the Ubuntu installer. > > DeMuDi also introduced Xorg in 1.2.1 using the Ubuntu packages. > > > > Positive support and mutual co-operation like this makes for good > > multimedia systems. We are about to start thrashing out a proper Debian > > multimedia policy over the next few months. Any advice, suggestions, > > requirements etc. from the Ubuntu camp could be extremely valuable. > > The only things I can think of probably have already been considered. > > Everywhere I read seems to indicate that while realtime-lsm is still > supported in Debian, Ubuntu, and others, it is deprecated in favor of > the rtlimits in the 2.6.12 and newer kernels. I currently use the > set_rlimits 1.20 app to access this. So either I would recommend this > be included in Debian or PAM with a proper setup. I don't know > anything about PAM, but I've read that it's the ideal way, and > set_rlimits is mainly for distros that won't use PAM. I don't even > know if Debian uses PAM.. > > I don't know if Debian will allow a kernel with Ingo's -rt patch, but > from my small amount of testing, it is the way to go. I'm trying to > get one into Ubuntu, and so far, Mark has told me "don't worry, you'll > get it." Probably worth checking this thread: http://lists.agnula.org/pipermail/users/2006-February/009956.html > There is a lot of software that I didn't see in Debian that some other > musicians would like to see as well. I believe the dssi stuff has an > ITP now, so that's a good thing. Things should start moving faster in that direction over the next few weeks, hopefully. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
