Josh Lawrence wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm starting to think that I'm beating my head against a wall trying > to make plain Debian work for me as an audio distro. So, I've been > looking at Musix, but the install media is DVD - way too much. Can I > use the Debian net installer and add Musix's sources and apt-get > dist-upgrade from there? If I can do that, what flavor of Debian is > best to use, stable or testing? > > I still like starting with a bare-bones install and adding what I want > to it, I'm just getting tired of compiling my own stuff. Why reinvent > the wheel? :) > > I only use the rt kernel from the musix repo... Debian stable is very stable.... But I think many audio apps on linux are new or are developing rapidly, and Debian is not always very fast with those new updates... especially not stable... So I decided to use Debian testing/ sid mixed system. This is NOT recommended by the official support of Debian! But I have very good experience with it.... I only use sid for audio applications (when it is needed). I use aptitude instead of apt-get and it works perfect for me (Do not use aptitude and apt-get, choose one! and if you choose aptitude don't use the synaptic!! If you change from apt-get to aptitude first thing to do is # aptitude keep-all))... Take a careful look at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612 And maybe this one is useful to: http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=214 Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
