7 Oct
2010
7 Oct
'10
12:52 a.m.
On 10/07/10 00:14, James Morris wrote:
Hi Will,
Hi James,
I'm not Will, but also curious.
Just curious, do you build all your audio stuff (from
the kernel
through to ardour) from source?
I used to do that using debian to provide the base system, and X, and
to provide the dependencies (where the packages were recent enough)
required to build all my favourite audio software.
Why not use gentoo, then?
Compiling a customized (real-time patched) kernel makes sense, but
ardour and friends are available from Debian.
I'm just wondering if it's getting any easier
these days, ie, is there
still much work to do, and is updating still a nightmare? (I used to
sometimes find I was better off doing a new install).
Nightmare? quite the opposite. I've migrated the same Debian system over
4 laptops in the last ~7 years without re-installing. If you roll Debian
packages for custom compiled software (or use backports) it's a piece of
cake.
With apt-pinning it's possible to run a mixed system
stable/testing/unstable and aptitude's dependency resolver just rocks.
I only use 'stable' for servers though and stick to "A constantly usable
testing distribution for Debian" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/ ) for
A/V Desk/Mac/Lap-tops.
2c,
robin
Cheers,
James
On 6 October 2010 17:05, Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> wrote:
> Just updated my debian squeeze based DAW and noticed audacity was
> amongst the updates. This once more works with jack - it hadn't for the
> last two or three updates.
>
> --
> Will J Godfrey
> http://www.musically.me.uk
> Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
> Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
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