Hi Ailo, Thanks for contacting us and apologies for the late reply.
ailo said : > The team developing Ubuntu Studio has just decided to use XFCE for their > next release - Ubuntu Studio 11.10 - now that Gnome2 has been replaced > by Unity on Ubuntu as the default desktop system, and Gnome2 will be > later replaced by Gnome3. > > There is also a strong desire to get a preempt configured kernel into > the main repo for that release, called linux-lowlatency. We've been > testing it during the development of 11.04 Natty, but it did > unfortunately not make it into the main repo this time. > The 2.6.39 kernel, as you may know, will support the use of rtirq-init > script to raise priority for audio devices. For Ubuntu Natty, the kernel > used is now 2.6.38. > Reliability with low latencies across many systems may need to be > determined, but it seems to do ok. Is there a PPA to test these kernels? > Also, Ubuntu Studio would like to be using a live image. > > I'm thinking perhaps there are areas in Puredyne development, that could > be collaborated on between these two distros, thus making the effort > less for Puredyne releases? Well, to be painfully honest, if you switch to XFCE and provide a live image then there will be some overlap with our project. It's not necessary a bad thing as long as we both know and understand the expectations of our respective communities. The scope of the project is to provide tools for media artists, designers and musicians, as well as a discussion place for people to talk about their practice, tips and tricks as practitioners using and/or writing free software. In that sense Puredyne also acts as a hub for art/tech discussions amongst us. The current technical focus and direction of Puredyne is to provide a fully functional live persistent distro (USB/CD/DVD/CF/HD/SSD) that can optionally be installed with the Ubiquity installer. By functional we mean that Puredyne can be used to setup art/sound/media installations, to populate temporary or permanent studios and labs, workshop machines, and of course be a reliable environment for real-time av processing. We aim to support relatively old hardware as our benchmark machine has always been a Pentium III 800Mhz with 384Mb of RAM, that's why we provide a light environment with no effects, bells and whistles. We believe that your CPU/GPU should be used plainly for the audio/video software you run. Of course users are free to install more eye candy on their own. Unlike what some people have been writing, Puredyne is not based on Xubuntu. We just use the standard Ubuntu repos and a few PPAs and then build the distro adding software one at a time to control bloat and avoid some of Canonical specific additions to Debian. It would be nice to know what is the current status and roadmap of Ubuntu Studio as well, so we could see if there are any overlap. a. -- http://su.kuri.mu --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
