Answering the original post, debian stable is an excelent
system for audio work. I'm using it here, and it works perfectly. I prefer
to have a solid base and compile myself newer versions of softwares I need,
than upgrade the whole system quite often. So, I compile a rt-kernel
(2.6.29.6-rt23 is IMHO very stable), a newer version of JACK (cause I was
told JACK 0.109.x should be avoided, but I'm not sure about that) and the
latest Ardour and SuperCollider versions. For Puredata there's already a
repository for PD-extended. One thing I was thinking about would be to have
something like an audio-backport repository for debian stable, so those
things can be done easier. Unfortunetly, I'm no expert on creating debian
packages, but am learning it (I build very simple packages to automate my
installs, but I for sure don't follow the debian maintainer guidelines).
About the change towards Ubuntu that the puredynes developers
are doing, well, I'm just an user and hope you will get a stable system.
That's what I've always liked about pure:dyne, it's fast and stable. Arch is
an interesting system, but AFAIK doesn't have the quality control debian
has, and I'm not so sure about rolling distros being well suited for stable
liveCDs.
Ricardo G.H.
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