> You might be dispapointed here, after some long discussions and
various
> tests, we decided to move to Ubuntu as well.
Ok, now I'm really frustrated... :)
I respect your decision, but I would to know why you have make that
decision.
I'm asking this because I really like your projects and I... "care"
about it. :)
I just moved to Debian thinking to "dive into the addictive GNU/Linux
word of FLOSS"!
As you know, I don't like Ubuntu but let me explain why;
Yes is a Debian, it's easy to use, can easily talk with a lot of
hardware, but all these cool things make it very slow.
Please don't think that I'm speaking of something I don't know, I
used Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu and UbuntuStudio for some time and I
installed it on a lot of boxes, and every time the stability of the
system has show an "expiration date" of about 6 mounts.
And I've found even difficult to make "extreme" things such change
DesktopManager, but maybe this is only an apt problem. I wasn't
really free with that distro, so I don't like it.
But what I really don't understand is: Why make another pro-audio
distro ubuntu based? Aren't UbuntuStudio and 64studio enough?
> 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.
Have you ever considered to use another kind of base system like, for
example ArchLinux? I was able to make a very simply arch based livecd
with little effort using the larch scripts.
Changing the base system means no work replications, (yeah you have
to do some package you've probably already make for debian, but in
that case you will improve the arch's package pool that is not
overflooded like the debian's packages pool, so I don't see work
replication) and arch is stable, usable, and is a rolling distro, so
the packages are always new.
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not asking to you to trash all the
awesome work have you done, or to change your decisions. I understand
that your decision is already take, so I'm not proposing to move to
arch, I want just only understand your point of view, and if have you
ever thinked about Arch! :)
(yes, it's true, I like Arch linux! But there the audio-64bit life is
actually hard!!)
Cheers.
aggaZ
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