On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:49 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > BTW, are you aware of 64studio? > http://www.64studio.com/
The best multimedia distro I know. I suspect Planet CCRMA as being equal, but it's a rpm based distro, so I suspect things to be a little bit different to Debian. The bad with 64 Studio is, that it's completely outdated. There might be up to date OEM versions, I don't know, but the latest free version is 3.3 alpha. For audio hardware is important, so issues for an outdated distro are not only regarding to software, but also regarding to hardware, since the support for professional audio cards isn't very good. For audio Linux already is equal to Microsoft and Apple, some things are less good, others are better, but only if you compile a lot yourself and tweak. All major distros don't care about state of the art Linux multimedia. Regarding to video, Linux still is far behind other OS. This month coders explained on Linux audio users list that this is regarding to manpower (time, money). Anyway, major distros should care about the state of the art for Linux multimedia, but they, including Debian, don't. So called multimedia distros often fail, regarding to manpower, e.g. 64 Studio and at least Ubuntu Studio fails, because they must be close to Ubuntu, but the flashy folderol desktop approach of all distros, including Debian, is a PITA for serious multimedia production. This is why there is no famous studio working with Linux, excepted of universities. Before posting links, search the LAU archive, what exactly famous studios do with Linux and what not. Famous video studios are using Linux, but not for the important artwork. I don't know any famous audio studio using Linux (excepted of some stand-alone-synth using Linux that has less to do with the Linux we use), although it seems to be possible today. 3D desktops and toy bullshit like this, that is absolutely good for nothing is supported by major distros, while e.g. GNOME2 will die, hence multimedia applications that today are stable, will become unstable again, resp. manpower is needed to rewrite some apps, anyway this might force people to change their work flows. No professional studio will change the work flow, Linux will become more unpopular for serious work, since there's no reliance that you are able to keep state of the art + your work flow. I'm using Linux for my home studio only, I never did a job using Linux. People using Linux professional seems to work for universities and small, non-famous professional studios and semi-professional studios. I might be mistaken and there might be one or two famous studios, any information about this is welcome. Cheers! Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1308135354.2444.218.camel@debian
