On 10/07/10 00:14, James Morris wrote: > Hi Will, Hi James, I'm not Will, but also curious. > Just curious, do you build all your audio stuff (from the kernel > through to ardour) from source? > > I used to do that using debian to provide the base system, and X, and > to provide the dependencies (where the packages were recent enough) > required to build all my favourite audio software. Why not use gentoo, then? Compiling a customized (real-time patched) kernel makes sense, but ardour and friends are available from Debian. > I'm just wondering if it's getting any easier these days, ie, is there > still much work to do, and is updating still a nightmare? (I used to > sometimes find I was better off doing a new install). Nightmare? quite the opposite. I've migrated the same Debian system over 4 laptops in the last ~7 years without re-installing. If you roll Debian packages for custom compiled software (or use backports) it's a piece of cake. With apt-pinning it's possible to run a mixed system stable/testing/unstable and aptitude's dependency resolver just rocks. I only use 'stable' for servers though and stick to "A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ ) for A/V Desk/Mac/Lap-tops. 2c, robin > Cheers, > James > > > > On 6 October 2010 17:05, Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Just updated my debian squeeze based DAW and noticed audacity was >> amongst the updates. This once more works with jack - it hadn't for the >> last two or three updates. >> >> -- >> Will J Godfrey >> http://www.musically.me.uk >> Say you have a poem and I have a tune. >> Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
