On 05/29/2011 02:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:42 +0200, R.Wolff wrote: >> Try AV Linux. >> Very well tuned for audio, fast, debian squeeze based, full devel-env. for >> compiling from source. >> Uses LXDE, so it's got a low overhead for desktop management. >> >> You can testdrive a LiveCD/USB-Stick. >> >> Hth, >> >> Raphael ;) > > A good idea. A long time ago I tested it and I like it. > BUT ;) I guess I'll use 64-bit. > > I simply will download and install Debian stable right now. > For Ubuntu and Suse I don't like that they switch their releases every > half year or so, OTOH I experienced dependency hell, when Debian were > outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn. > > By theory Ubuntu is what I would like to use, in life praxis I'm pissed > off at the moment. > > I have to bite the bullet, better outdated, than unreliable. > > So a few questions to Robin. > > It's essential that building > > - Qtractor from svn will cause no issues (I'm a tester) Not that I know or can think of. But I've not compiled it myself recently. > - JACK2 from svn won't cause issues (I need it regarding to the > -Xalsarawmidi switch, that enables the usage of hw MIDI without > audible jitter, I'm not talking about values called ms, much > below 1 ms) Definitely not. I'm debugging^wcontributing to jack2dbus on debian/squeeze and am partly responsible for the current jack2-svn head as of writing. > - Building an customized kernel-rt is easy to do (I guess I can > use my current Ubuntu Natty script for debian too? See > attachment) should work OOTB thanks to make-kpkg. > - Install Ardour3 alpha releases without issues sure. > Hopefully evolution (2.30.3-5) can use Evolution 2.32.2 settings for > filters? And not only import the mails? dunno. but you can get 2.32.2-2 from testing and 2.32.3-1 from sid. OT: as for filtering email: `imapfilter` is a nifty little tool; configure it once (and preferably run it on a 24/7 server) and never worry about switching/updating MUA again. > Any repositories I need to add? Any repositories I should avoid? debian-multimedia comes in handy for some non-free codec packages. See links in my other email for examples. have fun, robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
