23 May
2008
23 May
'08
2 p.m.
Josh Lawrence wrote:
Hello list,
I'm starting to think that I'm beating my head against a wall trying
to make plain Debian work for me as an audio distro. So, I've been
looking at Musix, but the install media is DVD - way too much. Can I
use the Debian net installer and add Musix's sources and apt-get
dist-upgrade from there? If I can do that, what flavor of Debian is
best to use, stable or testing?
I still like starting with a bare-bones install and adding what I want
to it, I'm just getting tired of compiling my own stuff. Why reinvent
the wheel? :)
I only use the rt kernel from the musix repo...
Debian stable is very stable....
But I think many audio apps on linux are new or are developing rapidly,
and Debian is not always very fast with those new updates... especially
not stable...
So I decided to use Debian testing/ sid mixed system. This is NOT
recommended by the official support of Debian!
But I have very good experience with it.... I only use sid for audio
applications (when it is needed).
I use aptitude instead of apt-get and it works perfect for me (Do not
use aptitude and apt-get, choose one! and if you choose aptitude don't
use the synaptic!! If you change from apt-get to aptitude first thing to
do is # aptitude keep-all))...
Take a careful look at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612
And maybe this one is useful to:
http://linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?t=214
Regards,
Dirk