On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 23:08 -1000, david wrote: > 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 stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...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 If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty 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 Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you 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. 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. > > I like Debian Sid - AptToSid does a nice distro based on Sid. They have > releases that use LXDE or XFCE, so you don't have to contend with the > idiocies called KDE4 or Gnome 3. Only thing is they don't provide an RT > kernel. I switched from KDE3 to GNOME2, full ACK, KDE4 is idiocy. I hope I can keep GNOME2 for a while :S, since LXDE and XFCE don't really fit to my flavour :(. I heard about a 'vintage' option for GNOME3?! -- Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
