[LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

[Robin Gareus]

On 05/31/2011 06:26 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
> 
[..]
> So - if you want to use the current DAW packages that are part of
> debian, especially if you want to run jack2, you need to be using sid
> and not using stable.

Where did you get this idea? Ardour2.8.11 w/jack2 works OOTB on
debian/squeeze.

> Definitely DO NOT use http://www.debian-multimedia.org, the changes it
> makes to the various libraries and mplayer etc will give you mp3
> encoding and a bunch of codecs that are not in debian, but the cost is
> it will often break the DAW packages that are not maintained in this
> repository 

debian-multimedia.org works just fine as additional repo. for squeeze,
wheezy and sid.

Could you please provide an example where it /breaks/ things or produces
conflicts?

> See above, to use jack2, and the huge amount of work done in the last 9
> months by debian multimedia maintainers 

There's some truth to that. but Ralf mentioned earlier that he want to
use jack2 from SVN anyway.

> you can't be using stable, and a
> mixed system will get you into trouble sooner rather than later. 

I beg to disagree: I'm running a mixed system
(stable/testing/experimental) without re-installing (just copy it over
to new hardware - i386 architecture) since debian/woody. Apt-pinning
helps a lot and `aptitude` does a great job at resolving dependencies.
I've posted some /etc/apt/ files earlier in this thread.

> This
> work is continuing very quickly, but will not be in stable until wheezy
> becomes the new stable in 2013. In debian terms "stable" means
> unchanging, frozen, fully predictable, security related fixes only ...

perfect. >2 years of making music without worrying about the system :)

Well, one can pull in selected "unstable/testing" packages or backports;
usually without updating the bulk of packages.

> for a three year lifespan while "unstable" means changing, volatile,
> updated with new work, versions and such like and "testing" means the
> candidate for the next stable.

Now that's concise description.

> I can't help with evolution.
> 
>>
>> For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in
>> good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled
>> today.

http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg

> This is where I find aptosid is useful to install my minimal debian. Not
> quite minimal, but there isn't much extra if you use the 1 cd xfce
> version, then add gnome or KDE if you prefer them. It is almost entirely
> pure debian except their kernel (you can use the debian one if you
> prefer), a few bugfixes and a few scripts to hold back broken versions
> of updates so a dist upgrade brings you fully up to date
> 
> Simon.
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Cheers!
robin