On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:41 +0000, tim hall wrote: > My reasoning behind this point/question is that studios and production > environments are likely to want to run 'stable' distros and Debian is > always going to ship with at least year old software, whether anyone > thinks it's a good idea or not. I would welcome any suggestions as to > a better way of dealing with these issues as I foresee a greater need > for this kind of support and I would like to be able to point users to > a better source of information when these queries come up, which is > likely to become more frequent as Linux Audio gains production > stability. If you want to run old software but your hardware requires the latest bug fixes, I don't see any good solution, other than for the distro to back port bug fixes and new drivers, which Debian/DeMuDi don't seem to be doing. If a production environment wants to use a 2-year old kernel they had better be willing to use 2-year old hardware if they need full driver support. Lee
