[LAU] Switching the distro

[Robin Gareus]

On 05/29/2011 02:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> 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 outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn.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 I have to bite the bullet, better outdated, than unreliable.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)

Not that I know or can think of. But I've not compiled it myself recently.

>         - 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)

Definitely not. I'm debugging^wcontributing to jack2dbus on
debian/squeeze and am partly responsible for the current jack2-svn head
as of writing.

>         - Building an customized kernel-rt is easy to do (I guess I can
>         use my current Ubuntu Natty script for debian too? See
>         attachment)

should work OOTB thanks to make-kpkg.

>         - Install Ardour3 alpha releases without issues

sure.

> Hopefully evolution (2.30.3-5) can use Evolution 2.32.2 settings for
> filters? And not only import the mails?

dunno. but you can get 2.32.2-2 from testing and 2.32.3-1 from sid.

OT: as for filtering email: `imapfilter` is a nifty little tool;
configure it once (and preferably run it on a 24/7 server) and never
worry about switching/updating MUA again.

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

debian-multimedia comes in handy for some non-free codec packages.
See links in my other email for examples.

have fun,
robin