From: "Hector Centeno" >
That's something that I keep debating about. The "slow upgrade, but stable"
model of Debian seems to go against the so fast development of Linux audio
apps. Releases occur often and with good improvements so freezing versions
"Debian style" makes you have to deal with bugs for long time, unless you
build your own apps which sometimes is not easy to do (specially when the
core libraries change too). I guess this model was and is successful for
other applications like servers. That's what I don't like about Ubuntu
Studio, you have to wait 6 months to get to use 3 or 5 versions ahead of
Ardour, for example. Also they don't want to include any other app that is
not authorized by the official repository and it seems that including
specialized audio apps is not their first priority (PD-extended or Csound5
for example). Fedora works fine from that point of view since updates
happen
quite often and Fernando keeps up very good with Planet CCRMA and the new
versions.
Just my personal opinion.
Cheers!
Hector
I switchs to Ubuntu Studio a bit ago from aSlackware monstrosity I put
together... and demudi before that... and XP SONAR 2.2XL before that. The
delay with the repositories hasn't bothered me much.
Personally, I don't need the latest and greatest... I need a computer that
will record audio tomorrow... anything beyond that is a bonus. Sure, if I
ran into a bug I would probably take the effort to upgrade from SVN
however... if it's in the hours just before the session I'm not going to
change anything. :)
Most home studios I know are centered around stability... or at least a fear
of change. :) I run a website catering to customers of a defunct sound card
manufacturer (Aardvark Audio) and I still got people running Win98 because
they got it working and it does what they want it to...
With the repositories, I don't have to fear the upgrades. :)
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