On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 18:24 +0200, ailo wrote: [snip] > It is however worth gold to know what setup you can trust, in what way, > and with what hardware, even if you don't know why :) (which I seldom do).
Full ACK Ailo. 10.04 LTS Lucid April 2010 - April 2013 = supported for 3 years 10.10 Maverick October 2010 - April 2012 = supported for 1.5 years 11.04 Natty April 2011 - October 2012 = supported for 1.5 years Every 6 month a new version. SUSE 11.2 November 2009 - May 2011 = supported for 1.5 years SUSE 11.3 July 2010 - January 2012 = supported for 1.5 years SUSE 11.4 March 2011 - September 2012 = supported for 1.5 years Every 8 month a new version. Debian Etch April 2007 - February 2010 = supported for 3 years Debian Lenny February 2010 - still supported Debian Squeeze February 2011 - still supported 'Some lib versions are too old for new apps' vs 'updates for libs aren't tested long enough' We should have a stable version and we should have a future version for tests and bug reports. Perhaps a distro for DAWs should be handled similar to Ubuntu's server support for LTS versions, e.g. 10.04 LTS Lucid April 2010 - April 2015 = supported for 5 years IMO there's a difference between using the computer as a toy or using the computer as a tool. The computer can be the desire by itself or music can be the desire, so hunting and comparing versions, special desktop FX etc. are less relevant. And there are more computer users who are experienced office workers, than experienced musicians. Imagine an experience of '20 days a month * 8 hours * several month (years)' using the computer for writing business correspondences or administrating a server and an experience of '4 hours * 52 weekends a year * several years' producing music with the computer. 2 Cents, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
