On Thursday 04 June 2009 01.09.32 jrogers wrote: ... > I know that the conventional wisdom is that Linux audio is not for ?new > Linux users? but I think that is the root of the ?chicken/egg? problem that > we have here. A predictable, stable, reliable audio distribution may > generate the support that the particular distribution (and Linux audio in > general) needs to get to the next level. > > Can we ?prime this pump? with a conservative but very useful distribution? Is there really need for another distribution? The problem people have is the RT-kernel, especially in relation to Nvidia and ATI cards and often way to old apps. Well, it's some problems problems too, such just have a working system when everything is installed. The mainstream distros does provide excellent infra structure for users, applications and package repository systems, why use efforts on making a new distro when the need is a stable reliable RT-kernel and an environment that in a easy way makes it possible to use newer applications such as Ardour 2.8, Rosegarden 1.7.3? Will a conservative distro provide the community with newer apps? This last six months, Ubuntu seem to have most RT-problems, but other distros are also affected, any distro can have this kind of RT-problems later. I've used/tried Musix (outdated), JAD (outdated), Ubuntu-studio (outdated (8.04) and unreliable (9.04)) and 64studio (outdated, and the current beta 3 don't boot on my system), and right now, Fedora10/CCRMA 64 works; this realities are quite different for everyone. So a functional RT-kernel project for Debian (derivatives) would be nice for a start. Jostein _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
