21 Mar
2006
21 Mar
'06
4:31 p.m.
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:41 +0000, tim hall wrote:
My reasoning behind this point/question is that
studios and production
environments are likely to want to run 'stable' distros and Debian is
always going to ship with at least year old software, whether anyone
thinks it's a good idea or not. I would welcome any suggestions as to
a better way of dealing with these issues as I foresee a greater need
for this kind of support and I would like to be able to point users to
a better source of information when these queries come up, which is
likely to become more frequent as Linux Audio gains production
stability.
If you want to run old software but your hardware requires the latest
bug fixes, I don't see any good solution, other than for the distro to
back port bug fixes and new drivers, which Debian/DeMuDi don't seem to
be doing.
If a production environment wants to use a 2-year old kernel they had
better be willing to use 2-year old hardware if they need full driver
support.
Lee