16 Mar
2010
16 Mar
'10
11:32 p.m.
Excerpts from Stephen Stubbs's message of 2010-03-17 02:23:56 +0100:
From: A. C. Censi <accensi(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tue, February 9, 2010 2:26:36 PM
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/36698-from-windows-to…
From Windows to Linux: a sound decision
Beasley's set-up:
Arch Linux system custom 2.6.31,6-rt19 kernel with RT preemption
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Thanks for posting this article. It's allowed me to start using Jack and Rosegarden
again.
Last November 20th or so (it's why I went totally silent, Oleg), an update came down
from Fedora 11 (I was also using Planet CCRMA repositories for audio). I only use the
stable repositories and I consequently trust all updates that come down from either Fedora
or Planet CCRMA.
That trust appears to have been misplaced.
For no readily apparent reason, I couldn't start Jack anymore. Time was extremely
short for me. I tried the suggested fixes in the Jack error log output, but it didn't
solve the problem. I next tried Fedore 12 and must have gotten the same update, since
Jack wouldn't start with the same error messages as I got under Fedora 11. I've
gone from then until Sunday, March 14th, without Jack, Ardour, and Rosegarden.
On Sunday I installed Arch Linux. No problems, except for searching the Wiki Forum to
find out the port number needed to get my network printer server recognized so I could
print under Arch Linux. I got that fixed yesterday.
I'm now running:
without PulseAudio (oh what joy!)
ALSA version 1.0.22, release 1 (if I've read that correctly from the PKGBUILD
script)
Jack version 0.116.2, release 1
qJackCtl version 0.3.6, release 1
Ardour version 2.8.7, release 1
Rosegarden version 10.02, release 1
Audacity version 1.3.11beta, release 1
The other thing I like about Arch Linux is that it doesn't automatically check for
updates, and it doesn't try to push updates on you. Now that I have a system running
the way I want, I can leave this system as is for the next 10 years if I wish and there
won't be any broken programs due to buggy updates. Oh what joy, again!
For What It's Worth,
Stephen.
I'm very glad Arch Linux works well for you, but I do have a word of
warning: If you plan to update Arch Linux in ten years you're likely to
run into lots of issues ;)
It really is designed for quite frequent updates, but if you're
selective and know what you're doing you should be fine for a while.
The point is that you're in control, you have to decide. Most of the
time the decisions are easy, but if you stick with a version of a
certain program and you need to re-compile the app because one of the
underlying libs had a so-name bump, then you could run into issues.
It's all about what you choose to do. And with passing time the required
effort might grow.
That all may sound a bit negative but I'm a very happy Arch user as well
and I'm very glad that it works out for you.
Regards,
Philipp