For general playback of audio or for audio production and composing music ? On Sun, June 2, 2013 5:26 pm, Alf Haakon Lund wrote: > > > On 02. juni 2013 17:06, Len Ovens wrote: >> >> On Sun, June 2, 2013 2:40 am, david wrote: >> >>> I've tried upgrading Ubuntu from one version to the next, and pretty >>> much had no success. So with Ubuntu, I prefer a fresh install. >>> >>> Debian's been no problem at all with upgrades. Even successfully >>> changed >>> from stable to sid once simply by changing my repositories. >>> >>> Upgraded Sid on my desktop machine today, 440+ upgraded packages, and >>> it >>> works flawlessly. >> >> Good to know. I am not sure what debian's release schedule is, but the >> freeze seems to be a lot longer than Ubuntu does. That would give more >> time for testing. Also UbuntuStudio is a) a very small team. b) a very >> different install. That is, the mix of applications and their attached >> libs is greater than any other ubuntu. >> >> I have found it very frustrating that something simple like a video >> player >> needs to be switched almost every release to find one that works. I >> would >> like to concentrate the creative SW, but find that the basic desktop >> needs >> fixing more often. >> >> I am quite excited though, about the idea of dropping Studio on top of >> any >> Ubuntu flavour. A small installer would allow the user to choose just >> the >> workflow they want and install that and the lowlatency kernel. It would >> also install a more organized menu for the creative workflows (I used to >> have a "multimedia" menu that I had to scroll all over to find anything) >> For those DEs that still think in those terms (and are XDG compliant). >> >> For those interested, the menu package should work well on any distro, >> ubuntu or not, so long as it uses the XDG style of doing menus. Unity >> and >> Gnome Shell are the noted ones that don't really think in terms of menus >> any more. I think Gnome Shell does have a menu option though. Unity does >> not and besides it seems Unity has proven not to amiable to audio use >> for >> many people anyway. When I have it finished and tested, I will post the >> download site. >> > > That sounds like a terrific idea! Meanwhile, anybody here who can give > some short starting hints on how to configure debian for audio? Decided > I want to give it a go as I'm anyway set to repartition and test Ubuntu > Studio 13.04. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > > ~~~ Home site - http://djbarney.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
