On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Larry Troxler <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > > So anyway, thanks, a bit of disappointing news. I notice that even the > 3.0 beta is a more than a year old, and you say it's based on Ubuntu > 8.04 LTS (whatever LTS is - I'll google). So it's already 2 1/2 years > old and still in beta. I'll read up a bit I guess. > LTS = Long term support. I have a number of machines running 8.04 because it is stable and still gets updates. Unfortunately the audio stuff is not in the category that gets updates. IIRC the 64 Studio 3.3 Alpha is based on the next LTS which is 10.04. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
> Am I write in thinking that the reason these music distros are so > lagging, is not so much the people working on them, but just the fact > that developers of the music apps are slow to put out debian packages? > > I guess sometimes the dependency issue makes moving forward go more slowly. > > At the moment, theoretically I guess Ubuntu Studio would be the most > current, but something turned me off about it when I tried it. I think > it was either that the kernel wasn't real-time by default, or it wasn't > built around Jack. I got the impression that it was oriented more to > video than audio. > Ubuntu Studio has trouble with the real time kernel. The difficulty is that supporting the general desktop use case, can have serious complications for low latency audio. Windows went through these same problems with the switch to an NT style kernel back in the 2000/XP days. For the Linux world things like binary driver blobs for wifi cards or nVidia graphics adapters often do not play nice with the real time kernel patches. The first step in Linux audio is making sure you choose the right gear. I know it sucks, especially since most artistic types want to get to the creating and could care less about kernels, binary blobs and so on. Nevertheless it is what is, and we have to deal with what is in front of us. > I looked at AVLinux but the audio application list is laughable lacking. > Not even PD or Rosegarden from what I remember. There's also a couple > other "live" distros. > I have not looked in to any of them recently. Many years ago I used DeMudi and AudioSlack. The developer for AudioSlack is now one of the core contributers to Ubuntu Studio and one of the main guys behind DeMudi is key to the 64Studio team. The point is that I believe 64Studio is currently the best we have. There is significant room for improvement but even the "old" and "outdated" 3.0 beta works great for me. <snip> I have no issue with release names and numbers. _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
