6 Aug
2011
6 Aug
'11
5:42 a.m.
Am Samstag, den 06.08.2011, 10:51 +0800 schrieb Simon Wise:
On 06/08/11 02:18, hermann wrote:
There is a big diff between a debian kernel and a aptosid kernel, it is
wide more then the rt-patch, eg. supported hardware,....
When you install a debian kernel on aptosid, you didn't get any support
from the aptosid supporter team.
So again, it isn't aptosid.
Am Freitag, den 05.08.2011, 06:51 -1000 schrieb
david:
But that IS aptosid ... it is not a distribution in the sense that AVLinux is,
it is a way to install debian sid. Aptosid has all of that, too, including the 3.0
RT kernel.
Again, that is not true, you can install a rt-kernel to aptosid simply
with apt-get, but AFAIK it isn't a aptosid kernel (a big diff in the
applied patchs). It is a debian kernel with the debian patch set
applied.
They do three very useful things for someone who wants to use debian sid on
their system ..
It's all up to you, I'm switch from aptosid to plain debian/sid and can
tell you, there is a big part witch is simply a myth.
1/ They package a live install disk with, in my
experience at least, an install
system that seems to deal with a wide range of new hardware very well.
2/ They build a custom kernel and maintain a set of bugfixes and an update
warning system to achieve 1/ and try to ensure that apt-get dist-upgrade can be
done safely to keep the installation up-to-date, using either their kernel or a
current or fairly recent debian one.
Wrong, see above
3/ They maintain a good manual and website so that 1/ and 2/ are useful to the user.
How you configure sid after that is up to you.
Again, your post suggest there is a interest by the aptosid dev's for
Pro Audio user, that isn't the case. It is a plain debian/sid desctop
based distro and they wouldn't do anything, if a Pro Audio app in debian
sid will broken. As long all in debian sid work, it work also in
aptosid. But it is also the case in the other direction.
AVlinux does something else entirely, they configure and maintain a debian based
system geared towards multimedia, staying quite close to a standard debian
system (so it remains very flexible).
That is another big job done for the audio user, and by most reports they do it
well.
It's not a other big job done for pro audio user, it is done for audio
user. That isn't the case with aptosid, and you will get that when the
time comes and a du bite you. I have run sidux/aptosid over 6 years and
use now plain debian sid. You will never get more support for Pro Audio
in aptosid then in plain debia sid.
If you like to use a rolling release with a wider range of support for
pro audio, then ARCH comes in mind. They do indeed greet work for pro
audio user.
Simon
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hermann