22 Sep
2006
22 Sep
'06
4:32 p.m.
On Fri Sep 22, 2006 at 11:25:00AM -0700, iainduncan(a)telus.net wrote:
Gaaah! I haven't had to install a new linux in
ages, and now am faced with doing
so. Is it just me, or is the state of linux pro audio on the major distros a
total mess right now? Fedora core 5 seems to require MUCH tweaking to get any
audio working and has a lot of alsa weirdness preventing serious work,
Ubuntu just plain doesn't work with numerous cards ( including mine! ) and
gentoo took a giant step backwards by rushing a broken and not ready 2006.1
installer out the door negating all the advantages they used to have.
Am I the only one who feels like getting pro audio working these days is
*harder* than two years ago???
i think its easier than ever. on windows it was alwasy a constant dance of deleting
registry entries from old versions of plugins, dealing with the annoyance of clogging up
USB ports with dongles or trackign down slightly ness annoying cracks just so you could
use software you paid for without broken challenge/response schemes that required internet
connections and said dongle ports..
have you tried the proaudio overlay? just about every audio app ever written for linux is
an emerge away. it couldnt get much easier..
just emerge layman && layman -a pro-audio or similar to get it installed..
It seems to me that in the race to make a distro
that has everything working out of the box, we now
have a bunch of things that
are really screwed up for those of us with unusual needs, and now they are much
harder to untangle. =(
Any recos for a distro that must:
- be decent for development
- allow easy integration of from source apps with the distro
- be realtively straightforward for audio kernel recompiles
Thanks
Iain