[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff

Fri Aug 15 09:45:29 UTC 2008

Yes i tried my hardest to keep my base system stable but i needed kde 3.5.9
I usually can keep it stable but this time I havent done it right and unstable
has crept past my apt-pinning!!
so i have a debian sid base with the 64studio kernel and most other items are 64 studio :-(
But saying that its solid - ive still got some pinning in place so most of the machine is running stable!!
It shouldnt be to long before kde 3.5.9 goes into stable then life will be much easier for me!!
Or will it be time to move to kde then!!!???  aagghhh  decisions decisions !!

Are you using the standard gnome install with 64studio?

kde control center is easy!
system administration font installer to install fonts
and appearance and themes & fonts
you can adjust fonts and view installed fonts

wayne

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> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:30:21 +0100
> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
> 
> Wayne ward wrote:
>> Andy this is worth doing on 64studio to get nice fonts..
>> it works on mine..
>>
>> http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/serendipity/archives/61-Getting-nice-anti-aliased-fonts-in-Debian.html
>>
>> infact i just did it!!
>>   
> Thanks. I have done this, though it turned into a bit of a saga, as 
> having set it up, I then wanted to find a nice font viewer to look at 
> the fonts with. The only one I could find was fontmatrix, but this is 
> only in debian testing. I didn't want to install testing for my base 
> system because it might be unstable, so decided to follow these 
> instructions:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
> 
> on installing a testing release inside a chroot jail on a stable system. 
> This has worked really nicely - you can even run the testing programs 
> from an X terminal inside the stable X session if you want, with a bit 
> of tweaking (mainly using mount --bind to mirror the X server socket 
> directory inside the chroot jail). So all good fun in the end.
> 
> andy
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>>   
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:32:31 +0100
>>> From: andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk
>>> To: wayneward100 at hotmail.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
>>>
>>> Yes it's running realtime. The only thing I'm worried about at the 
>>> moment is things like DVD playing - I saw something which said debian 
>>> doesn't support this. I'm sure I'll find a way round it though.
>>>
>>> andy
>>>
>>> P.S. I think your email program isn't working right - you messages keep 
>>> coming out with no line breaks, all run into one long sentence.
>>>
>>> Wayne ward wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Wicked thats what you want! Are you running realtime aswell? There 
>>>> shoud be a small RT sign i your qjackctl window.. It should just be 
>>>> realtime out of the box... Wayne 
>>>> ----------------------------------------> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 
>>>> 14:27:12 +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:>> andy baxter wrote:>> 
>>>>       
>>>>>>> Can anyone recommend a good distro for doing simple music 
>>>>>>>             
>>>> recording />>> editing / etc? I use ubuntu for everything else, but 
>>>> I've just spent a>>> fair bit of money on a new external firewire 
>>>> sound card with 2 inputs>>> and outputs, and then found various 
>>>> annoying bugs in the programs I'm>>> using (jackd, ardour, and 
>>>> zynaddsubfx so far), which is making me think>>> that the ubuntu 
>>>> people don't really have audio work as their main>>> priority when 
>>>> keeping packages up to date. I could use 'planet CCRMA'>>> 
>>>> (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/), but this is fedora 
>>>>       
>>>>>>> based I would rather use something debian based.>>>>>>>>>> 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). 
>>>>       
>>>>> P.S. I just realised what I said here isn't quite right. They do 
>>>>>         
>>>> have> their own stable repositories for multimedia apps, but keep 
>>>> them> compatible enough with debian etch (stable) that you can put 
>>>> that in> /etc/apt/sources.list as well.>> Still really impressed 
>>>> with this distro - been playing about recording a> guitar and drum 
>>>> track using ardour, and so far I haven't had a single> xrun. (xruns 
>>>> are what happens when a bit of audio data gets lost because> the 
>>>> software can't keep up with the hardware).>> andy>> 
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