I would love to be part of that new list too, FLOSS + art is what I do and is essential discussion nowadays (with war on copyrights + machine as appliance , etc... ) It's good to see life having an effect on coders (with good things like babies... I have one too) And it's interesting to focus on a modular system like broth wich could open the community to other things. looking forward to what is coming
wish you the best and thanks you for the puredyne project, which was a light in the dark . Olivier ogeem.be On 07/02/12 13:00, [email protected] wrote: > Send Puredyne mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.goto10.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/puredyne > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Puredyne digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: announcement from the Puredyne developers (Geofroy Tremblay) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:26:50 -0500 > From: Geofroy Tremblay <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [puredyne] announcement from the Puredyne developers > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > Dear Puredyne, > > It's interesting to read this email - since I just change my main > computer to Debian over the weekend, and it was still running puredyne. > (my audio computer still running puredyne thought) Looking at the last 4 > years I realize how much I learned trough puredyne - and I have to say > that, even though I used linux and ubuntu here and there before, it was > puredyne that really charmed me - and the OS of choice when Apple wasn't > apple anymore (about 3 years ago). > > Anyhow, the software was one part, the community was another part, > creativity with computer was what sealed the deal ;) > > I would be really interested to be part of the next mail list and see > where that lead us all - of course I would love to see a nice broth on > Debian that include the main tools I use (puredata, fluxus,sc, > processing, arduino, yeah I know java :S ) - some sort of puredyne with > less complex maintenance (so I could be more of help) - bt I realize > that even that is a lot of work! > > For the moment, I moved to a clean debian for my main machine, puredyne > for the audio machine and Crunch Bang for my Dj gear (#! is quite a > interesting community base distribution that worth checking out by the > way) But I have been on the lookout for a puredyne type of system, which > doesn't seem to exist :S > > Thank you for the community, Thank you Aymeric and the whole Dev team > ;) the future seems promising :D > > > On 06.02.2012 03:31, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: >> Dear Dan, Puredyne community, >> >> I have been a pretty quiet reader of this list since a while. I manly >> use debian these days. Always loved Puredyne, burning the iso popping >> it in any machine and having all the (especially audio- in my case) >> stuff I like. >> I remember - now a few years ago - getting hold of a Puredyne iso >> using my university's connection - hey don't tell enyone ;) - burning >> it and thinking "wow multimedia on linux exists. and works" :) Many >> things evolved since then... >> Recently used it in a workshop about linux + music - (mac) people are >> always positively surprised by this polished, full-working system >> which 'just works' out of a CD. >> >> For what it may be worth, all I can personally add is a big thank you >> to all the people who in a way or another contributed to this great >> FLOSS + creativity project. And wish tham all the best for their >> dreams, future, and art. >> >> Ciao, >> Lorenzo. >> PS: I would be very interested in the proposed FLOSS + art list. >> >> On 05/02/12 19:59, Dan S wrote: >>> Dear Puredyne community, >>> >>> As you might have noticed, Puredyne's development has somewhat >>> stalled >>> with our latest release being Carrot and Coriander. While still >>> working perfectly on most machines, this release is now pretty old. >>> If >>> you follow the list and IRC regularly you are aware that we have >>> been >>> working on a new version, Gazpacho, for a little while now, and got >>> as >>> far as an alpha release. >>> >>> This alpha release was our last soup. >>> >>> Truth is, some annoying bugs have held us back from releasing a new >>> stable Puredyne, and we have been struggling to find the time, >>> motivation and energy to get the job done. As a matter of fact this >>> is >>> has been delayed so much that at this point, even if we would fix >>> everything *right now*, this release would already be out of sync >>> with >>> upstream. You can imagine that porting, updating and patching the >>> same >>> packages over and over again is certainly frustrating. >>> >>> Next to that, Carrot and Coriander is a great relase and it would be >>> a >>> pity to hack together a new version just for the sake of bumping the >>> version number. We would like to leave the community with a decent >>> soup as our final gift rather than something that could be >>> potentially >>> substandard (OK you're supposed to serve gazpacho cold, but at the >>> moment it looks more like a garlicky tomato soup than the famous >>> Andalusian dish). >>> >>> Of course, we can talk in details about the technical issues we >>> faced >>> in the development of Gazpacho, the growing commercialism of Ubuntu >>> and the general feeling, that grew amongst some of us in the last >>> years, that we should instead teach people to hack their own >>> artistic >>> OS and tune it for their practice rather than provide a top-down >>> designed general purpose multimedia system. >>> >>> All these are valid points, yet there is something else to it, >>> something more profound to this decision. Puredyne has been around >>> for >>> nearly a decade, it's time to let go of the project. >>> Nothing lasts forever, everybody moves one, interests shift, people >>> get jobs, get fired, resume their studies, have children (4 babies >>> were born in the dev group so far and another one is on the way), >>> etc. >>> Life, really. >>> >>> Now, before closing the list it might be worth to mention two last >>> things. >>> >>> First of all, Puredyne was built with a script called broth. It >>> lives >>> on top of Debian's live tools. With this script it is possible to >>> build all sorts of Debian or Ubuntu live distros. Every now and >>> then, >>> some of us have the need, for an installation, a workshop, a >>> birthday >>> party, to quickly generate an audiovisual oriented live >>> USB/DD/CD/DVD. >>> Broth is very handy for that, so that's why we will be still using >>> it, >>> hence possibly developing it further whenever we need it (current >>> version lives here: https://launchpad.net/broth ). >>> >>> The second point concerns the community aspect of Puredyne. While >>> there is no point in keeping this list running, we want to ask you >>> all >>> if you would be interested to join a new list to keep on >>> talking/discussing about the practice of free software related art, >>> music and design (get help on installing and using distros and free >>> software for artistic practices, but also a place to >>> announce/present >>> your projects, look for collaborators, etc). No strings attached, >>> just >>> an idea, but one that may be useful for users/former users of >>> Puredyne >>> - based around our initial goal to support FLOSS + art practice for >>> ourselves and others, where we saw a gap that needed filling. Send a >>> mail off-list to [email protected]. If we get a few positive >>> responses we'll make a list and subscribe those who contacted us. >>> >>> I think that's it for now. >>> >>> Puredyne was a great project, we learned a lot, we had great fun. We >>> thank you all for supporting us and having been around all these >>> years. >>> >>> :* >>> --- >>> [email protected] >>> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >>> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >> --- >> [email protected] >> http://identi.ca/group/puredyne >> irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Puredyne mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.goto10.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/puredyne > > End of Puredyne Digest, Vol 81, Issue 5 > *************************************** > --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
