[LAU] Quick question RE Musix

schoappied schoappied at gmail.com
Fri May 23 12:01:02 EDT 2008


Josh Lawrence wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm starting to think that I'm beating my head against a wall trying
> to make plain Debian work for me as an audio distro.  So, I've been
> looking at Musix, but the install media is DVD - way too much.  Can I
> use the Debian net installer and add Musix's sources and apt-get
> dist-upgrade from there?  If I can do that, what flavor of Debian is
> best to use, stable or testing?
>
> I still like starting with a bare-bones install and adding what I want
> to it, I'm just getting tired of compiling my own stuff.  Why reinvent
> the wheel?  :)
>
>   
I only use the rt kernel from the musix repo...

Debian stable is very stable....
But I think many audio apps on linux are new or are developing rapidly, 
and Debian is not always very fast with those new updates... especially 
not stable...

So I decided to use Debian testing/ sid mixed system. This is NOT 
recommended by the official support of Debian!
But I have very good experience with it.... I only use sid for audio 
applications (when it is needed).
I use aptitude instead of apt-get and it works perfect for me (Do not 
use aptitude and apt-get, choose one! and if you choose aptitude don't 
use the synaptic!! If you change from apt-get to aptitude first thing to 
do is # aptitude keep-all))...

Take a careful look at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612

And maybe this one is useful to: 
http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=214

Regards,

Dirk





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