2 Aug
2011
2 Aug
'11
7:01 a.m.
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank everyone on here who's been recommending it
to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and it has
everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight Debian repositories so I
can put on it whatever I'm used to from Debian-land.
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a customer in a
relatively very short time, got him up and running on an old PC with no hassles. The RT
kernels from the AVLinux website worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation
required. The docs are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a whole
choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing a little bit, which was
fun.
All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
-ken
2 Aug
2 Aug
8:49 a.m.
On 08/02/2011 07:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank everyone on
here who's been recommending it to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and it has
everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight Debian repositories so I
can put on it whatever I'm used to from Debian-land.
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a customer in a
relatively very short time, got him up and running on an old PC with no hassles. The RT
kernels from the AVLinux website worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation
required. The docs are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a whole
choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing a little bit, which was
fun.
All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
-ken
Same here, I wanted to test a Ricoh host controller on a notebook with
no Linux on it and didn't want to touch the partitions. So I created a
bootable AVLinux USB stick. Booted and was pleasantly surprised. It's
snappy and a lot of things just work. The only drawback was Jack
segfaulting when I tried to stop it. But the new FireWire stack + 2.6.39
+ Ricoh hostcontroller worked just fine otherwise :)
It sure blows Studio 4 out of the water ;)
Best,
Jeremy
9:35 a.m.
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
On 08/02/2011 07:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
Which version of AVLinux are you talking about? I think I tried it and
it wouldn't run on any of my hardware. (None of which is new enough to
boot from a USB stick, so I tried a DVD.)
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank
everyone on here who's been
recommending it to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and
it has everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight
Debian repositories so I can put on it whatever I'm used to from
Debian-land.
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a
customer in a relatively very short time, got him up and running on an
old PC with no hassles. The RT kernels from the AVLinux website
worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation required. The docs
are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a whole
choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing a
little bit, which was fun.
All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
-ken
Same here, I wanted to test a Ricoh host controller on a notebook with
no Linux on it and didn't want to touch the partitions. So I created a
bootable AVLinux USB stick. Booted and was pleasantly surprised. It's
snappy and a lot of things just work. The only drawback was Jack
segfaulting when I tried to stop it. But the new FireWire stack + 2.6.39
+ Ricoh hostcontroller worked just fine otherwise :)
It sure blows Studio 4 out of the water ;) 
12:31 p.m.
On 08/02/2011 08:49 AM, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
On 08/02/2011 07:01 AM, Ken Restivo wrote:
A part of the praise should go to the Debian Multimedia Team imo. They
are doing a good job!
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank
everyone on here who's been
recommending it to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and
it has everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight
Debian repositories so I can put on it whatever I'm used to from
Debian-land.
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I set it up for a
customer in a relatively very short time, got him up and running on
an old PC with no hassles. The RT kernels from the AVLinux website
worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation required. The
docs are good. And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a
whole choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing
a little bit, which was fun.
All in all, hooray for AVLinux, I'm impressed.
-ken
Same here, I wanted to test a Ricoh host controller on
a notebook with
no Linux on it and didn't want to touch the partitions. So I created a
bootable AVLinux USB stick. Booted and was pleasantly surprised. It's
snappy and a lot of things just work. The only drawback was Jack
segfaulting when I tried to stop it.
That's a known FFADO bug with the new
stack I think.
But the new FireWire stack + 2.6.39 + Ricoh
hostcontroller worked just
fine otherwise :)
It sure blows Studio 4 out of the water ;)
Best,
Jeremy
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2:50 p.m.
Experiences with AV are very good here too, there's just one reasons that I
can't advertise it to people: PCManFM is the default file manager, and Trash
is disabled by default. IMO there's no better way to scare people away from
using linux than having it delete thier data permanently.
Also I find the backgrounds a touch "old" most of the time. I guess a bit of
time spend with gimp & inkscape is better spend than whining about it
online, but there you go :)
Huge thanks out to GMac for all the effort he's put in, even when times
weren't all sunny.
-Harry
11:13 a.m.
Ken Restivo wrote:
I really like AVLinux and I want to thank everyone on
here who's been
recommending it to various people for a long time.
It's a Debian remix, basically, so I'm right at home. It's solid and
it has everything I need, plus it's easy to bring in the straight
Debian repositories so I can put on it whatever I'm used to from
Debian-land.
OK, booted an AVLinux 5 DVD on my little musicbox laptop (Toshiba
Satellite with 2.8GHz Celeron, 798MB RAM, Intel chipset, UCA202 USB
soundcard).
I'm now using it on my own studio machine, and I
set it up for a
customer in a relatively very short time, got him up and running on
an old PC with no hassles. The RT kernels from the AVLinux website
worked; no tweezing required, no kernel compilation required.
Oh, they must not include those on the DVD. Was wondering why it was
running just a straight kernel.
The docs are good.
Have to take your word for that.
And there are nifty non-audio extras there like a
whole choice of video editors, so I dipped my toes into video editing
a little bit, which was fun.
JACK wouldn't run on my musicbox hardware here (gave me many messages
saying it couldn't unregister DebugModule) until I changed periods from
2 to 3. Never had JACK refuse to run simply because of a period setting.
Minor thing: there were no bank or preset directories set up for
Yoshimi, yet they were there at the usual location.
But it is snappy, even on this old hardware. And gave me no overruns
during my fooling around. Better than the Debian setup running on my
regular laptop! Assuming I can get the network connection working, so I
can install the RT kernel, I'll have to try it out.
--
David
gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
11:30 a.m.
On 08/02/2011 11:12 AM, david wrote:
Minor thing: there were no bank or preset directories set up for
Yoshimi, yet they were there at the usual location.
That was a known bug with the version that comes with AV Linux, if you
quit Yoshimi once and restart it the banks are there.
Best,
Jeremy
8:26 p.m.
Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
On 08/02/2011 11:12 AM, david wrote:
Thanks, it's a newer version of Yoshimi than I usually run.
--
David
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authenticity, honesty, community
Minor thing: there were no bank or preset
directories set up for
Yoshimi, yet they were there at the usual location.
That was a known bug with the version that comes with AV Linux, if you
quit Yoshimi once and restart it the banks are there. 
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