Hey Mark, Yip yip - in total agreement here.
Sounds like a whole heap of us are going to be doing this anyway, so lets firm-up[as in a crew]. Not sure how this will all pan out but I kind of like being in over my head. Could do with a project name at this point I reckon. Julian On 9 February 2012 12:09, marker <mar...@indymedia.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Thanks Julian, > > your email got me thinking about the state of linux audio distro's and > the linux audio ecosystem, and this brought me to an idea of a possible > way forward for us, as former users of the dearly lamented puredyne. > Read on for a proposal of how I think we could move forward. > > I should just mention that although I've mostly been a lurker on this > list, like many of you I've had excellent experiences of using puredyne > in media workshops and hacklabs over the last few years. I've been > reading people's comments here with interest. > > On 08/02/12 16:35, Julian Brooks wrote: > > Obviously going to need a realtime kernel. Are there really decent > > benefits from rolling your own to fit your own machine? And again if so > > - how? > > My understanding is that the mainline 3.x series kernels have integrated > most of the patches we used to have to apply ourselves to make an RT > kernel. So for most people, I guess the answer to your question will be > no, there aren't advantages, unless you have esoteric needs. > > > Personally I would be well chuffed to have a lappy where pretty much > > everything is compiled and tweeked for my machine. Not sure how big the > > performance gains would be but personal satisfaction-wise it would be > > sizeable. > > Satisfying when it works, but easily broken and impossible to support, > from my experience. Of course, the greater your skills, the further you > can go with compiling your own software. This got me thinking about > empowerment (see below). > > But the point about configuration and system tweeking is a good one. > > At the moment, I can see several audio distro's with mediocre > distro-specific documentation. There are also documentation projects > that are not distro-specific, that have limited usefulness because much > of the content is outdated or will only work in particular circumstances. > > I see an opportunity here for us to put the collective wisdom on this > list to work on creating a linux-audio documentation project, that would > be aimed at empowering former puredyne users to configure and tweak a > base debian system into something like puredyne. > > This could include an editorial system to make sure that information > remained current and applicable to debian-stable. When each 'stable' > becomes 'oldstable', we could archive that set of docs and bring out a > new 'edition' specifically tested on and aimed at the new stable release. > > I can see that if a group of us committed to start working on a wiki > now, with a view to releasing our first set of documents to coincide > with the release of wheezy (or as close as possible), a lot of people > would see the value of this as a unifying project, not another > duplication or derivative effort. I would expect we'd get a lot of > support from the debian-multimedia people, but our project would have a > different scope in being focussed on empowering people to make art using > FLOSS. And there would be plenty of scope for writing broth-like > scripts, automated installers and so on - but keeping everything > referenced to a specific base distro. > > What do you all think about this? Would people be up for it? Or can > people think of other ways forward we should discuss first? > > Mark > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPM7dxAAoJEESjmmCcNrqTRMcP/1rdLYaE78nqIbv5e0kWoWGF > sqbXMI8l4lJEm4Yilsy00kKAlpTx7Sboqs6EtbGrsxDKGUb6T934ucjwwMc/UTam > Bi+c0DRLRfqYJDdNKBa2TYgJTVL1n3SRuQs/x5lhnb9oddKloyrkRB1vuBI31D1T > dqTn7l5bQ6ktQH9ta4el2Qpd5PahCQSsAYX8MlrSSZKmApivudT2rncw2urLs8uV > FJ8QrtuwZQl9R3BHovst79XhikOoUh5ZcNGmnj+GHkuLo2qDKluydieRFM8mLP2r > fgOKRLbVBwOL2TRk5ln+Ll08yboRgPlyydyUNeAnE/+tpZyGb39vVT+CciAB89hh > rHRnlThZQBmh+U35qZ7W/A157lnkW9MfCVwZGrF9NKDT1Gd4pR8MxMg92kUNmc9A > klGyxmQQelsqJCdr30cWLI+x4Wb2pZ7OdCarOWQVkviJcGsB5vYn26D4EQV4pgAx > jARL0P2hlIzGkI+Xs/9UefXr40JUkYrM9G3Ww0VpA3OMH0Z4X9q+Qmd7Kpa8BfsH > 0tmPyw4tu8tgAlErPzkL0XdzoGAvGbPWlxab9rF/Uw1EwqDNw87Iac32wi3kwjtT > HYkC98piJnscSj9DitErNmeWRUX1FyydK8Yc1LGlcMP9BfVQAQfVqeFDYq19rdu1 > OMsoBs9PdIj75M4zGvZq > =6G2W > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --- > Puredyne@goto10.org > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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