Excerpts from Stephen Stubbs's message of 2010-03-17 02:23:56 +0100: > From: A. C. Censi <accensi@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 2:26:36 PM > > http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/36698-from-windows-to-linux-a-sound-decision > From Windows to Linux: a sound decision > Beasley's set-up: > Arch Linux system custom 2.6.31,6-rt19 kernel with RT preemption > ============================ > > Thanks for posting this article. It's allowed me to start using Jack and Rosegarden again. > > Last November 20th or so (it's why I went totally silent, Oleg), an update came down from Fedora 11 (I was also using Planet CCRMA repositories for audio). I only use the stable repositories and I consequently trust all updates that come down from either Fedora or Planet CCRMA. > > That trust appears to have been misplaced. > > For no readily apparent reason, I couldn't start Jack anymore. Time was extremely short for me. I tried the suggested fixes in the Jack error log output, but it didn't solve the problem. I next tried Fedore 12 and must have gotten the same update, since Jack wouldn't start with the same error messages as I got under Fedora 11. I've gone from then until Sunday, March 14th, without Jack, Ardour, and Rosegarden. > > On Sunday I installed Arch Linux. No problems, except for searching the Wiki Forum to find out the port number needed to get my network printer server recognized so I could print under Arch Linux. I got that fixed yesterday. > > I'm now running: > > without PulseAudio (oh what joy!) > > ALSA version 1.0.22, release 1 (if I've read that correctly from the PKGBUILD script) > > Jack version 0.116.2, release 1 > qJackCtl version 0.3.6, release 1 > > Ardour version 2.8.7, release 1 > > Rosegarden version 10.02, release 1 > > Audacity version 1.3.11beta, release 1 > > The other thing I like about Arch Linux is that it doesn't automatically check for updates, and it doesn't try to push updates on you. Now that I have a system running the way I want, I can leave this system as is for the next 10 years if I wish and there won't be any broken programs due to buggy updates. Oh what joy, again! > > For What It's Worth, > Stephen. > I'm very glad Arch Linux works well for you, but I do have a word of warning: If you plan to update Arch Linux in ten years you're likely to run into lots of issues ;) It really is designed for quite frequent updates, but if you're selective and know what you're doing you should be fine for a while. The point is that you're in control, you have to decide. Most of the time the decisions are easy, but if you stick with a version of a certain program and you need to re-compile the app because one of the underlying libs had a so-name bump, then you could run into issues. It's all about what you choose to do. And with passing time the required effort might grow. That all may sound a bit negative but I'm a very happy Arch user as well and I'm very glad that it works out for you. Regards, Philipp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
