[LAU] Switching the distro

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:42 +0200, R.Wolff wrote:
> Try AV Linux.
> Very well tuned for audio, fast, debian squeeze based, full devel-env. for
> compiling from source.
> Uses LXDE, so it's got a low overhead for desktop management.
> 
> You can testdrive a LiveCD/USB-Stick.
> 
> Hth,
> 
> Raphael ;)

A good idea. A long time ago I tested it and I like it.
BUT ;) I guess I'll use 64-bit.

I simply will download and install Debian stable right now.
For Ubuntu and Suse I don't like that they switch their releases every
half year or so, OTOH I experienced dependency hell, when Debian were
outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn.

By theory Ubuntu is what I would like to use, in life praxis I'm pissed
off at the moment.

I have to bite the bullet, better outdated, than unreliable.

So a few questions to Robin.

It's essential that building

        - Qtractor from svn will cause no issues (I'm a tester)
        
        - JACK2 from svn won't cause issues (I need it regarding to the
         -Xalsarawmidi switch, that enables the usage of hw MIDI without
        audible jitter, I'm not talking about values called ms, much
        below 1 ms)
        
        - Building an customized kernel-rt is easy to do (I guess I can
        use my current Ubuntu Natty script for debian too? See
        attachment)
        
        - Install Ardour3 alpha releases without issues
        
Hopefully evolution (2.30.3-5) can use Evolution 2.32.2 settings for
filters? And not only import the mails?

Any repositories I need to add? Any repositories I should avoid?

-- Ralf
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