[Lancaster] FW: distro for audio / music stuff

[Wayne ward]

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> From: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
> To: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:22:23 +0000
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> Sounds good worked well for me!!I tend to apt pin so it doesnt move the distro to a unstable basewhich yes you get the newer version of the programs but you go unstable!! The only one i would suggest adding isthe 64studio testing branch if you want slightly newer versions of the programs you use is deb http://apt.64studio.com/64studio/testing 64studio mainadd that line to nano /etc/apt/sources.list (as root!)then apt-get update and try apt-get -s upgradethis will give you a list of packages it will upgrade!Debian isnt the same as ubuntu its totally different although it uses the same base and setup its maintained and compiled seperate its definitley more stable and snappier! I tried the ubuntu studio and it was awful!! there is a real problem with the realtime kernel and machine lockups with ubuntu.As for the demo yes i could have it all setup at mine but i live at scale hall if everyone is ok with coming over here?I could put down drums bass + guitar and hook up the midi keyboardif you run into any problems my hotmail ady iswayneward100 at hotmail.com Wayne> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:22:56 +0100> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk> To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff>> andy baxter wrote:>> I'm just trying out 64studio ( 64studio.com ). It seems to be very>> closely based on debian (it uses all debian repositories unless you want>> bleeding edge stuff which they have their own repository for). So far I>> am massively impressed. The installation was easy enough - you could>> complain about the lack of a graphical installer, but it isn't really>> necessary, and there weren't too many questions to answer. All my>> hardware seems to have been detected ok (on an IBM / lenovo thinkpad).>> And it is so much faster / more responsive than ubuntu - programs start>> in under half the time I would say than on ubuntu. I found this very>> surprising, because I thought ubuntu was pretty close to debian as well.>>>> The main thing I was worrying about with switching to a distro so close>> to debian is that I would have to do a lot of extra work setting up>> things like detecting and mounting usb devices, which as far as I>> remember wasn't set up by default last time I was running debian as a>> desktop. But it detects and mounts my usb hard drive fine.>>>> The audio programs I wanted to use (jackd and ardour) are working better>> than in ubuntu so far, which is why I decided to have a look at 64>> studio in the first place, so that's good.>>>> Will write more if I come across anything else noteworthy in the next>> week or so.>>>> andy>>>>  > P.S. thanks to wayne for suggesting this distro.>> _______________________________________________> Lancaster mailing list> Lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/lancaster
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