2 Jun
2011
2 Jun
'11
10:16 a.m.
On 06/02/2011 10:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 09:43 +0200, rosea.grammostola
wrote:
Which software is more stable, old or recent software?
When it comes to
audio software, I am sure Debian Testing is more stable then Debian
Stable, especially when we're moving further in time from the release
date of Debian Stable.
An other approach is to backport from Testing/ Unstable to Stable. This
is what AVLinux and (in the future) OpenDAW does. I don't have
experience with that situation.
Regards,
\r
On 06/02/2011 04:59 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Thank you :)
to bad that I used Evolution before. I only upgraded Evolution, because
Evolution isn't able to import even Emails from another Evolution :(. I
needed a workaround and it seems to be, that using equal versions of
Evolution is the best I can do.
I'll upgrade to testing. If it doesn't work as reliable as needed, then
I will reinstall stable.
Regarding to reliability (if one gets payed for audio engineering), I
don't trust any OS, using any software (just a personal point of view, I
know that this opinion can lead to academic discussion ;). For home
recording IMO it isn't fatal, if from time to time an app should crash.
I just wanted to ensure, that Debian testing already is in a good shape.
For me it's the same, "not doing serious stuff these days though", so
I'll be venturesome ;). Repositories: All 'regular' Debian stable
+ debian-multimedia stable,
excepted of Evolution + dependencies ;) (I could downgrade Evolution)
Package: libslv2-dev
Missing dependency.
Caused by
libgnutls-dev:
Depends: libgnutls26 (=2.8.6-1) but 2.10.5-1+b1 is to be installed
Hm?
I guess I'll upgrade to testing ;). OTOH it's more important to have
stable DAW. Does somebody use Debian testing for audio and MIDI?
Should I avoid an upgrade?
I do use debian testing (not doing serious stuff these
days though).
Debian testing is pretty stable, more stable then the latest Ubuntu
version in my experience. All though mixing stable with testing can
become a pain, mixing testing with unstable shouldn't give you much
troubles normally.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=15612
The Debian Multimedia Team is doing most of the audio related packaging
for Debian.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia
For the latest audio software, Arch Linux doesn't give you much more
compared to Debian testing/ unstable in my experience. An advantage of
Debian is that there are more packages available.
Regards,
\r