[LAU] Puredyne 9.11 (Carrot and Coriander+) - new release of realtime audio+video distro

Dan S danstowell+lxau at gmail.com
Tue Apr 6 15:32:48 EDT 2010


2010/4/6 James Morris <james at jwm-art.net>:
> On Sun, April 4, 2010 00:27, James Morris wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just wondering why the 64bit Puredyne does not include Ardour?
>>
>> And how this might affect building it from source?
>
> Still wondering...

It's a fair question. It wasn't me that made that decision (I don't
use ardour), and I don't see an audit trail why they went for
ardour-i686 - I'll ask the others.

> I've been using Debian in the past, compiling kernels, JACK, ALSA, etc,etc
> from source, but recently switched to Gentoo. Then other things got in the
> way of setting up audio production software so have nothing running.
>
> I'm kinda sick of building stuff from source at the moment so (64bit) Pure
> Dyne looked like the solution to that, but without ardour2, it's just not.
> Disappointing.
>
> And why punish us with grub2? I had a hellish time trying to configure it
> a couple of months ago and gave up and installed legacy grub.

It's the (barely-documented) future I'm afraid...

Dan
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