[LAU] LTS jack - was - which lau distro is more commandline friendly?

[Len Ovens]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:

> I run a LTS now and jackd must be upgraded.  For Ardour to export
> reliably. Not so easy.  It will be done, but cycles will be spent.
> Might as well go for a non-LTS next time, such as KXStudio.

Which LTS? I am also running an LTS (14.04) and jack (I have used jackdbus 
pretty much from the start) has just worked. The API has not really 
changed and I have had no problems compiling and installing the latest SW 
or for that matter developing SW. The minor bug with this version can 
easily be avoided by running Jack before anything else. "Nice" to upgrade 
yes, "must", not so much.

In a world where the SW that is used is mostly "finished" not beta and not 
still growing, LTS makes good sense. Even in the world most of us are in, 
good stable work machines can be made using an LTS with the Network cable 
pulled (even a non-LTS if it happens to have drivers or sw the user 
needs).

Right now may be a good time not to upgrade with some distros as system 
lib changes may give you daw->plugin incompatibilies. (ggc4 or gcc5)

Here is one of the problems with a) LTS set ahead of time on the calendar, 
b) using LTS as set by a team that has no real interest in the audio 
world. (this second really doesn't matter after the first is in place)

But somehow it works not to bad if you don't have to have the bleading 
edge of everything. At least a new version is not going to break your 
project at the end of your work on it.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net