[LAU] Switching the distro

[R.Wolff]

Since AV Linux is Debian Squeeze, you can of course use their repos.
Like I said, AVL comes with full build env. to build all you need on your own.
However, the packages delivered by AVL are quite up to date, stable, and all
apps I've tried (some only shortly) worked. A few days ago I tried Tango Studio
(based on Ubuntu 10.10) and almost nothing worked ootb. So I quickly skipped it.

NVidia & ATI drivers are installed through the means of a helper script.
Eve though it's 32-bit, there's a PAE rt-kernel available if you have 4 GB of
RAM or more.
The developer is very responsive and the forum quickly helps you out in case of
trouble.

I see no real advantage for my machine (AMD Athlon 7750BE, ASRock AOD790GX/128M,
4 GB RAM OCZ, Radeon HD4650, Delta 1010LT, BCR2000 etc...) in using a 64-bit
audio distro,
as long as there's a PAE kernel available.

I don't use evolution, so can't comment. For me an audio distro doesn't need all
those office,
email or whatever stuff. Just a browser (FF for me), and pidgin.

I've long observed your discussions about MIDI jitter on the 64-Studio list.
Still, I can't comment
because I never perceived such issues. At least not since my last PC build.

You shouldn't need any additional repos imho, since the AVL repo is well filled
with audio software.
And then there's always Debian Multimedia. Always depending on what you plan to
do of course.

Regards,

Raphael ;)


Am 29.05.2011 14:55, wrote 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 outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn.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 I have to bite the bullet, better outdated, than unreliable.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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