Re: [LAU] Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

there has been a lot of changes in sid and testing recently as the new stuff that was waiting for the release moved into those distributions. Jack2 was very new to squeeze. The differences between squeeze and wheezy, as you mention very correctly below ... if you have a setup that works, there is no need to change it, no need to keep chasing new versions. If you are using an svn version of a core part of your setup you probably do keep an eye on improvements, and there are a lot of interrelationships between libraries in audio. I see a few good choices - you can look after these interrelationships yourself, find a solution that works then leave well enough alone and get on with making music, or you can search for a distribution that works out of the box, and stick with it. Or, if you want to occasionally upgrade to newer versions of your main apps it isn't a bad idea to have a system that maintains recent versions underlying libraries, so you don't need to spend so much effort each time but can rely on the maintainers of that system to do that for you. That does not happen with debian stable, by design it stays the same for its lifespan, and gets further and further out of date. Look at the debian multimedia maintainers list to see how often things break. It is quite often. sure, there are many ways to manage a system. Threads like this were a great resource when I set up my system. yes, that is why I put it that way - if stable provides what you want, then certainly use it, and now is the perfect time to do so because it is as up to date as it ever is. If it doesn't have all you need and you add things from outside then it isn't the carefully prepared stable debian any more, and the advantages of a very thoroughly tested system with minimal problems is gone. Then you need to choose your strategy. There are many sensible ones, I have only describe my particular choice in case it may be useful. Simon.