Hi, > Hello. > I'm a bit frustrated, I decided to write here to find help. > My ArchLinux64 system abandoned me, it wasn't a good audio enviorment > so I decided to change. > I don't like Fedora and rpm's (so I don't like JAD too...). > I'm too lazy to reinstall Gentoo. > I hate Ubuntu and even 64studio is moving to it... > > It's time to try Debian, and I love Pure:Dyne. > Unfortunately ther's not amd64 support, so I decided to install only > Debian. > It's a good choise for audio production? Can I easily install a rt- > kernel on it? > Ther's some other distro that I've not considered? > > There is a porting-puredyne-to-64bit project? Maybe I can help > compiling something... >
well, for one, Ubuntu is a Debian after all, this means that the Ubuntu team takes off its work from a snapshot from Debian packages and then improves those until they see them suitable for releasing. The reason why these distro's (and puredyne too!) are moving to Ubuntu is because of a number of reasons, but mostly because a) nobody likes to replicate work of others because b) people are lazy and c) people that use a distro for desktop usage usually want the latest features available to them, which is why Ubuntu has a much more accelerated release cycle. This might seem trivial, but isn't from the point of view of many users, especially new ones. In the end, once you strip away all the themeing bullcrap and bloatedness underneath its Debian Sid + a lot of patches and improvements. As for amd64 support: to create cross-compiled packages for i368, amd64 and lpia is extremely easy when using launchpad, it basically does everything for you. In fact, there are already quite a few (not very well tested) packages including a rt-kernel for amd64. This is why puredyne, as a distro of particular packages like PureData or SuperCollider will at some point also be available as full 64bit OS, although there is no roadmap for that yet. If the fact that we're also moving over to a Ubuntu based distro doesn't get you too annoyed and alienated we'd be really happy to get some help on the project! A good start for that could for instance be to create or re-package a piece of software and test it through your own software channel, the ppa. When you find that your package works well you could merge it with the puredyne ppa. Greetings, karsten --- [email protected] irc.goto10.org #pure:dyne
