[LAU] Audio distros

[david]

On 02/15/2013 08:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Not this again ;)!
>
> My apologies, but I'm searching for a distro comparable to old Arch
> Linux or old Ubuntu Studio.
>
> For another thread Gene was talking about "black magic" and indeed some
> "things" are "occult" in the sense of "hidden" ;). FWIW, all ADAT
> channels of my RME card, that aren't working for Linux, are working for
> my FreeBSD. The Xfce menu icon of FreeBSD only, is replaced by a
> pentagram, for me it's just some kind of asterisk, without any super cow
> powers, but perhaps this does the magic. The next Xfce install will get
> the same icon ;D.
>
> I dropped my old Arch, regarding to too many issues with the unfinished
> switch to systemd.
> Following the mailing list I had the impression, that the transition is
> complete and that there are no serious issues any more, but trying to
> install it yesterday, I suspect that mails regarding to issues simply
> are rejected.
>
> I still try to install the current Arch Linux later today, but seemingly
> the transition to systemd isn't finished yet and perhaps the next wicked
> transition already will be enforced in a hidden way. Just an assumption,
> I don't claim that it is that way.
>
> While my request regarding to pppoe for the install doesn't pass list
> moderation, eth0 isn't up and doing it as usual doesn't work, I read
> rude words about request to keep Wayland optional. It seems to be, that
> some people using X anyway need to install Wayland.
>
> Fortunately there's a German Arch Linux forum, where it's still possible
> to get help, but I also need clarification in what direction Arch Linux
> will go in the near future and I prefer a distro with a sane mailing list.
>
> Debian and Ubuntu still have good mailing lists, but as for Ubuntu
> Studio I have several generations installed, from 10.10 Maverick to
> 12.10 Quantal. The performance on my machine dramatically slows down
> with each release. Quantal for some tasks already is unusable, a lot of
> the non-audio desktop apps I need are buggy and this isn't an issue for
> my machine, but the troubles are common, for many users.
>
> Last time I monitored the poll the most used distros were Arch Linux and
> Ubuntu Studio. Yes, that are my distros too, ok for 2012 and perhaps ok
> for 2013. But how will those distros continue?

No clue how they'll do. I prefer Debian Sid with XFCE or Fluxbox. KDE4, 
GNOME3 - resource hogs forcing services on me that I don't need. Unity 
UI I hate; compatibility problems with at least one Linux app I've used 
for years.

Musix 3 I like, too. ArtistX was also nice, too, but don't know what 
it's doing now.

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