On 05/29/2011 02:56 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf > <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:19 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote: >>> On 05/29/2011 12:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>>> I've got a absolutely stable and MIDI jitter free Ubuntu MIDI and audio >>>> worksattion, regarding to audio apps, but it was very time consuming to >>>> set it up >>> >>> Do make a backup of the current setup!! That may come in handy. >> >> When there was no MIDI jitter for hw midi, this was the first thing I >> did. In general I'm making backups very often and I don't sync one >> backup archive, I always make completely new backups and keep at least >> the last two backups. >> >>> All of your preferences will be met by debian. Pulseaudio is optional >>> and the debian-multimedia team are on the forefront when it comes to >>> pro-audio packages. >>> >>> Also note that OpenDAW (64studio's successor in the making) is based on >>> debian/squeeze. >> >> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004657.html >> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004661.html >> >> ;) >> >> A while ago I tidied up my HDDs and removed most installs. >> >> I kept Suse 11.2 and Ubuntu Maverick only. >> Then I installed Natty. >> >> I'll keep those and additionally install Debian, I hope that Debian >> stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ... >> >> If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty >> immediately. >> >> Thanks a lot, >> >> Ralf > > Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you > can have =). This is great for stability (as the name implies), but > don't expect to see some new software for maybe up to a year or 2. A /stable/ system in a studio or on stage is a good thing! YMMV. But outdated packages is not true [any more]. e.g. debian/stable offers ardour-2.8.11 (the current release), IOhannes is personally pushing Pd to debian/git and you already find the latest LV2/lilv/SUIL/.. in sid. need to list more? For a desktop/devel system you can run a mixed stable/testing/sid by just adding them to /etc/apt/sources.list (either manually or with your favorite package manager - here are the files I use: http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/etc-apt-sources.list.gz http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/etc-apt-preferences.gz ) > If > you really have to have the latest there'll be stability sacrifices to > make, but something like Arch (which I use) is great. More maintenance > needed though, especially if you update close to daily. Once you've > got a good system going it makes sense to only update when you don't > have a big project coming up. Full ack on Arch. It's a fine distro. just a matter of taste and 'workflow'. robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
