Daniel James wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > >> But what i heard from 64studio community is that >> it's not sure, that it will continue? >> > > I should clarify that point. Development has continued on the commercial > products, but we have altered the roadmap for the free download distro. > Other distros have now implemented similar designs to our free 2.x > releases and have made them available for amd64. This factor enables us > to return to our original vision, that the free distro would support the > commercial projects and therefore help sustain development. > > The 3.0 beta releases are actually not bad - I use 3.0 beta3 daily - but > lacked the polish we would put into a commercial product. Our future > free downloads will be similar betas. This is because if we spend too > much time on the free download versions, not only will we be poor, but > we'll be providing very tough competition for our future commercial > products :-) >
Hi Daniel :) that is bad news :(. You'll have a community of testers for the free version, so this would help the OEM versions. And by now there's tough competition to 64 Studio, perhaps that will get around. I tested "Musix" and it's not able to compete, I'm not using it. I've got an openartist installation, I'm using it, but it's not able by default to compete for audio, but for drawing, animation and video it is able to compete and even if it's not able to compete for audio by default, it's anyway interesting for audio too, because it comes with a lot of VSTs, but just as a 32-bit Linux and because it's based on Karmic people can compile current Linux audio software, something that isn't possible using the Hardy based beta, anyway I do agree that 3.0-beta3 is actually not bad, it's my daily used Linux too and still my preferred Linux for audio. The tough competitive Linux distro is AV Linux, I'm not using it, but I tested the Live DVD, at least I know one from this mailing list who changed to this distro, because of issues with current 64 Studio. He resolved to use 64 Studio again, when this issues are solved, e.g. by being based on something more up to date but Hardy. Hi Mathias :) at the moment 64 Studio is fine :). Should it ever happen that it wouldn't be fine any more, there are other multimedia distros, that are good too. I just mentioned some relative new distros here, but there are some established distros, e.g. planet ccrma, I never used it, but it's used a lot, I guess more people do use this distro, than people do use 64 Studio. If you're fine with Linux now, you don't need to use Apple or Microsoft in the future, even if 64 Studio should stall upgrades much to long. Even the pulseaudio issue is solved the same way it's solved for 64 Studio for e.g. openartist and there still is the possibility to use distros like Suse, that have issues when using GNOME, to use with KDE instead. Daniel, Mathias, cu (on that list ;), Ralf _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
