D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On Sunday, October 16, 2011, Ian Gardner wrote: > >> This is the first time I've experienced anything other than practically >> useless rg/qsynth performance on a vanilla kernel (ubuntu version). > > Interesting. > > What will be really interesting to see is if this is still true after the > next > kernel update, or in the next Ubuntu release. I've always had terrible luck > with vanilla distro kernels working consistently over time. One version > works > great, the next version breaks everything all over again, because somebody > decided some piece of code was too much of a security risk or something. > > So far, there has been no surcease of sorrow on that front, and the Linux > kernel has a consistent track record of making our lives miserable. > > I wonder how to upgrade my distro since the fancy graphical "you've got > updates" tool has been broken for ages, and never shows up. > > Last time I thought about updating, I decided to do a clean install from CD. > The installer crashed just as I was in the middle of setting up what > partitions to use for what, and that's when I decided to stick with LTS.
Every time I've tried to upgrade an Ubuntu, I ended up with a hosed system. I prefer Aptosid, gives me a somewhat-stabilized version of Sid and has the 3.0 kernel. Or you could try out some of the audio distros running around. -- David [email protected] authenticity, honesty, community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
