9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
2:57 a.m.
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:31:48 -0500 (EST), Lee A. Azzarello was like:
1) What Debian communities for audio software packaging are you a
part of?
Does this list count?
2) How do you install new releases to your system?
Manually with apt-get (or sometimes synaptic). I have never felt comfortable with
"apt-get-upgrade".
3) How often do you build your own kernel for audio
systems?
I never have for audio work (yet).
4) If you're not running real Debian, what made
you change?
I ran Demudi as my first audio system. It worked well (pretty much everything worked right
off the bat) but it didn't perform as well as WinXp/Sonar on the same hardware. I felt
I could get better performance with a leaner system so I built a Debian system from
scratch (using netinstall and manually selecting/installing programs) which gets much
better latency numbers than Demudi.
I could never get Ubuntu to work with my Delta 1010 cards. I understand that it does work,
but I could not make it happen.
5) If you are running real Debian, have you upgraded
to etch or sid?
I use etch - I tried sid but there were too many dependency/broken app problems with the
software I wanted to use. In all the years I have used Debian (since 2.2 - potato?) I have
rarely used stable.
Ruben
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Debian Etch 2.6.15-1
Ardour 0.99-3+b1
AMD Athlon XP 2000
Delta 1010