I am acutally use apodio since many years... and those last 2 years I
feel more & more easy to make professional audio than ever!!!
I do whatever I want, I becareful of the equipment I buy and then I
install my distro and go on... and we actually more & more install
party... people are more ready than ever!
but I made last week a testing sessions of different distro and I got a
lot of problem... I missed prepared distro with many on it and easy to
add...
-I test the last Debian 3rc1 or something (you need to refresh the all
system after you installed, I think that's a little oldies way of making
a distro... and becareful of the glibc update ahahah :-D )
-the last ubuntu dapper 6.0.6 or something (I didn't make it work on my
machine, a lot of problems of writing on the DD... I met people with
same experience on .iso of ubuntu downloaded from their website... bouga)
-I test the last fedora, was nice install but after you need another day
of configuration of your audio + install... planet CCRMA should make a
planetCCRMA LIvecd based on fedora that you could install straight ready
to go... it could rocks... I don't (I know why they not do it)
just shared experience ....
cheers
joke
http://www.apodio.org
Gaaah! I haven't had to install a new linux in ages, and now am faced with doing
so. Is it just me, or is the state of linux pro audio on the major distros a
total mess right now? Fedora core 5 seems to require MUCH tweaking to get any
audio working and has a lot of alsa weirdness preventing serious work,
Ubuntu just plain doesn't work with numerous cards ( including mine! ) and
gentoo took a giant step backwards by rushing a broken and not ready 2006.1
installer out the door negating all the advantages they used to have.
Am I the only one who feels like getting pro audio working these days is
*harder* than two years ago??? It seems to me that in the race to make a distro
that has everything working out of the box, we now have a bunch of things that
are really screwed up for those of us with unusual needs, and now they are much
harder to untangle. =(
Any recos for a distro that must:
- be decent for development
- allow easy integration of from source apps with the distro
- be realtively straightforward for audio kernel recompiles
Thanks
Iain
