13 Nov
2011
13 Nov
'11
11:36 a.m.
Hi all,
I've had a lot of little problems with my ubuntu recently so i decided to
get it reinstalled.
First I went for the last version but I didn't really like the unity
desktop. Had a lot of little annoying things on my laptop such as not being
able to set a brightness setting that wouldn't be reset at boot. All in
all, i decided to go back to gnome.
As I didn't know what older version to chose and as I was pretty pleased
with my Lucid, I went back to Lucid;
Now my problem is I need a rt or lowlatency kernel (2.6.32 or higher) to be
able to set up my laptop properly because I use some pretty original
settings to make the best out of my machine.
But now I can't find any... :(
I looked in abogani's and falktx's ppas but nothing there.
So my question is simple, which version of ubuntu should I choose to be
able to enjoy a good audio workstation with a corresponding rt or
lowlatency kernel ?
Second question, if I wanna stick with lucid where can I find the
lowlatency or rt kernel (2.6.32 or higher) I'm looking for ?
Thanks in advance
jy
jy
13 Nov
13 Nov
12:18 p.m.
On 11/13/2011 12:35 PM, jy wrote:
Hi all,
I've had a lot of little problems with my ubuntu recently so i decided
to get it reinstalled.
First I went for the last version but I didn't really like the unity
desktop. Had a lot of little annoying things on my laptop such as not
being able to set a brightness setting that wouldn't be reset at boot.
All in all, i decided to go back to gnome.
As I didn't know what older version to chose and as I was pretty
pleased with my Lucid, I went back to Lucid;
Now my problem is I need a rt or lowlatency kernel (2.6.32 or higher)
to be able to set up my laptop properly because I use some pretty
original settings to make the best out of my machine.
But now I can't find any... :(
I looked in abogani's and falktx's ppas but nothing there.
So my question is simple, which version of ubuntu should I choose to
be able to enjoy a good audio workstation with a corresponding rt or
lowlatency kernel ?
Second question, if I wanna stick with lucid where can I find the
lowlatency or rt kernel (2.6.32 or higher) I'm looking for ?
Thanks in advance
jy
jy
There are other dists than ubuntu too :) that in many cases are far
better suited for audio...
12:59 p.m.
On 13/11/11 19:13, alexander wrote:
On 11/13/2011 12:35 PM, jy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So my question is simple, which version of ubuntu
should I choose to be able
> to enjoy a good audio workstation with a corresponding rt or lowlatency kernel ?
> Second question, if I wanna stick with lucid where can I find the lowlatency
> or rt kernel (2.6.32 or higher) I'm looking for ?
>
There are other dists than ubuntu too :) that in many cases are far better
suited for audio...
indeed, especially if you want to do your own system tweaking ...
... but if you do want ubuntu you could try xubuntu instead
Simon
14 Nov
14 Nov
9:59 a.m.
Hi and thanks for the quick response.
> There are other dists than ubuntu too :) that in
many cases are far
better suited for audio...
Yeah I guess. But I'm not only using my pc for audio as it's the family
laptop :)
Anyway I think it's my last attempt at ubuntu as I get tired of it, if
think it's great to begin with but now I want something a bit more...
well... stable and smaller. Something I can have easy control.
So which ones would you suggest for reasonable tweaking, easily
maintanable, with good hardware support (as I'm using a laptop) and fun to
use for people who don't care about which OS they're using (meaning a cool
and friendly desktop with the regular apps that one can use on other OS) ?
Also, there is linux 2.6.33-rt for lucid in kxstudio
PPA. It is not in
the main PPA but look for "KXstudio team kernels and
drivers".
Great thanks Pablo, I'll try this one...
Tango Studio is Ubuntu-based, dedicated to audio and
has a very good
realtime kernel.
I've been looking at TangoStudio earlier but it's too much audio/video
oriented for me. I want something a bit more versatile (with automatic
package update for instance). I don't want to bother to update my system
manually. Actually, I just use a few apps (jack, ardour, hydrogen,
bristol, yoshimi plus effects) not the whole bunch so I always fear these
distros (tangostudio, ubuntustudio, ..) that come with a lot of apps. I
usually get lost
Thanks and cheers
jy
2011/11/13 Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy(a)autostatic.com>
On 11/13/2011 12:58 PM, Simon Wise wrote:
indeed, especially if you want to do your own system tweaking ...
... but if you do want ubuntu you could try xubuntu instead
Hello Simon,
Ubuntu is perfectly suited for system tweaking, it's just another Linux
distribution.
Best,
Jeremy
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10:55 a.m.
Greetings,
To the OP:
You might find some useful information here:
On AV Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/home-av-linux
On Arch Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-tale
Btw, I'm running audio systems here on Arch, AV Linux, Ubuntu 10.04, and
64 Studio. The Arch and Ubuntu systems are plain vanilla installations
tweaked for performance.
Best,
dp
11:13 a.m.
Dream Studio: http://dream.dickmacinnis.com/
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Op 14-11-11 10:55, Dave Phillips schreef:
Greetings,
To the OP:
You might find some useful information here:
On AV Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/home-av-linux
On Arch Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arch-tale
Btw, I'm running audio systems here on Arch, AV Linux, Ubuntu 10.04, and
64 Studio. The Arch and Ubuntu systems are plain vanilla installations
tweaked for performance.
Best,
dp
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1:37 a.m.
On 11/14/2011 04:55 AM, Dave Phillips wrote:
Btw, I'm running audio systems here on Arch, AV Linux, Ubuntu 10.04,
and 64 Studio. The Arch and Ubuntu systems are plain vanilla
installations tweaked for performance.
How does the performance compare running audio software, and as daily
"desktop computers?"
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9:50 a.m.
Thansk all for your advices.
I'm keeping ubuntu lucid for the time being and will look further into
which distros might interest me for my next installation !
Strange though thing is that even Lucid is supposed to be supported until
next Spring, lots of PPAs already don't support it anymore. Especially
FalkTX's and abogani's (the first being marked as deprecated). It's their
own right I know but i was a bit disappointed to discover that they didn't
do it anymore.
By luck KSStudio's PPA still offers a lot of Lucid compliant packages for
audio software. That did the trick !
Thanks a lot !!
jy
2011/11/15 Al Thompson <althompson58(a)gmail.com>
On 11/14/2011 04:55 AM, Dave Phillips wrote:
Btw, I'm running audio systems here on Arch, AV Linux, Ubuntu 10.04,
and 64 Studio. The Arch and Ubuntu systems are plain vanilla
installations tweaked for performance.
How does the performance compare running audio software, and as daily
"desktop computers?"
--
---
My website is down. I had a motherboard failure on that computer!! (ugh)
http://lateralforce.no-ip.org
My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio,
mixing, equipment, etc, is at:
http://audioandmore.wordpress.com
Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch;
und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.'
- [Friedrich Nietzsche]
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11:47 a.m.
On 11/15/11 09:50, jy wrote:
Strange though thing is that even Lucid is supposed to
be supported until
next Spring, lots of PPAs already don't support it anymore. Especially
FalkTX's and abogani's (the first being marked as deprecated). It's their
own right I know but i was a bit disappointed to discover that they didn't
do it anymore.
By luck KSStudio's PPA still offers a lot of Lucid compliant packages for
audio software. That did the trick !
Hello jy,
This doesn't apply to the Tango Studio repositories, those are Lucid
only. And Lucid being an LTS release doesn't mean PPA's have to support
it, when it comes to PPA's you have to deal with the whims of the
maintainers of those PPA's. I never enable any PPA or repository unless
I'm 100% sure a repository won't break anything or remains maintained
for a longer period of time. Needless to say I've never enabled any
KXStudio or FalkTX PPA, I only installed some separate packages,
actually very few packages because most of those packages depend on
newer libraries or stuff that isn't in Lucid (like Jack2).
Best,
Jeremy
14 Nov
14 Nov
11:29 a.m.
On 11/14/11 09:59, jy wrote:
I've been looking at TangoStudio earlier but
it's too much audio/video
oriented for me. I want something a bit more versatile (with automatic
package update for instance). I don't want to bother to update my system
manually.
Hello jy,
Tango Studio is more an audio distribution than a multimedia
(audio/video) distro. Afaik it also has automatic package updating but
when making music I'd disable it, at least, I got really annoyed by
those sudden xruns caused by the package manager interrupting my audio work.
Best,
Jeremy
5:36 p.m.
On 11/14/2011 09:59 AM, jy wrote:
Anyway I think it's my last attempt at ubuntu as I
get tired of it, if
think it's great to begin with but now I want something a bit more...
well... stable and smaller. Something I can have easy control.
So which ones would you suggest for reasonable tweaking, easily
maintanable, with good hardware support (as I'm using a laptop) and fun
to use for people who don't care about which OS they're using (meaning a
cool and friendly desktop with the regular apps that one can use on
other OS) ?
I been using debian for ages, switched to ubuntu for the 6 month release
cycle and the benefits of beeing in the mainstream. Unfortunately the
later version made me long for something else. The unity/gnome3 thing +
the rumor that ubuntu was planning on abandoning their 6month release
cycle and switch to rolling release was too much for me and I installed
arch (after recommendations from this list).
I've been very happy with it, it's small, stable, has a rolling release
(I'd prefer a 6month release cycle, but it works quite well, nothing has
been really broken (not more than with a fresh unbuntu install) since.
It's a a bit hand-held during the install, but that's something you only
do once.
I'm sure you'll get a ton of recommendations, so good luck with choosing :-)
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5:56 p.m.
On 11/14/2011 05:35 PM, Atte André Jensen wrote:
On 11/14/2011 09:59 AM, jy wrote:
Since I use xmonad as my window manager and only fire up e.g. nautilus
when i need it the gnome3 thing doesn't really matter to me and ubuntu
stays perfectly usable? Isn't it possible to install a real gnome2 on
ubuntu, too?
flo
Anyway I think it's my last attempt at ubuntu
as I get tired of it, if
think it's great to begin with but now I want something a bit more...
well... stable and smaller. Something I can have easy control.
So which ones would you suggest for reasonable tweaking, easily
maintanable, with good hardware support (as I'm using a laptop) and fun
to use for people who don't care about which OS they're using (meaning a
cool and friendly desktop with the regular apps that one can use on
other OS) ?
I been using debian for ages, switched to ubuntu for the 6 month
release cycle and the benefits of beeing in the mainstream.
Unfortunately the later version made me long for something else. The
unity/gnome3 thing + the rumor that ubuntu was planning on abandoning
their 6month release cycle and switch to rolling release was too much
for me and I installed arch (after recommendations from this list).
I've been very happy with it, it's small, stable, has a rolling
release (I'd prefer a 6month release cycle, but it works quite well,
nothing has been really broken (not more than with a fresh unbuntu
install) since. It's a a bit hand-held during the install, but that's
something you only do once.
I'm sure you'll get a ton of recommendations, so good luck with
choosing :-)
1:21 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 11:35 AM, jy <jypllx(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I've had a lot of little problems with my ubuntu recently so i decided to
get it reinstalled.
First I went for the last version but I didn't really like the unity
desktop. Had a lot of little annoying things on my laptop such as not being
able to set a brightness setting that wouldn't be reset at boot. All in
all, i decided to go back to gnome.
As I didn't know what older version to chose and as I was pretty pleased
with my Lucid, I went back to Lucid;
Now my problem is I need a rt or lowlatency kernel (2.6.32 or higher) to
be able to set up my laptop properly because I use some pretty original
settings to make the best out of my machine.
But now I can't find any... :(
I looked in abogani's and falktx's ppas but nothing there.
So my question is simple, which version of ubuntu should I choose to be
able to enjoy a good audio workstation with a corresponding rt or
lowlatency kernel ?
Second question, if I wanna stick with lucid where can I find the
lowlatency or rt kernel (2.6.32 or higher) I'm
looking for ?
Thanks in advance
jy
There is linux 3.0-lowlatency for natty in abogani's PPA and you can select
ubuntu classic (gnome2) in the login screen. This is what I am using.
Admittedly, my computer is not an audio workstation but I sometimes enjoy
guitarix, ardour, etc, without problems.
Also, there is linux 2.6.33-rt for lucid in kxstudio PPA. It is not in the
main PPA but look for "KXstudio team kernels and drivers".
Cheers, Pablo
8:59 p.m.
On 11/13/2011 11:35 AM, jy wrote:
Hi all,
I've had a lot of little problems with my ubuntu recently so i decided to
get it reinstalled.
First I went for the last version but I didn't really like the unity
desktop. Had a lot of little annoying things on my laptop such as not being
able to set a brightness setting that wouldn't be reset at boot. All in
all, i decided to go back to gnome.
As I didn't know what older version to chose and as I was pretty pleased
with my Lucid, I went back to Lucid;
Now my problem is I need a rt or lowlatency kernel (2.6.32 or higher) to be
able to set up my laptop properly because I use some pretty original
settings to make the best out of my machine.
But now I can't find any... :(
I looked in abogani's and falktx's ppas but nothing there.
So my question is simple, which version of ubuntu should I choose to be
able to enjoy a good audio workstation with a corresponding rt or
lowlatency kernel ?
Second question, if I wanna stick with lucid where can I find the
lowlatency or rt kernel (2.6.32 or higher) I'm looking for ?
Thanks in advance
jy
jy
Hello jy,
Tango Studio: http://tangostudio.tuxfamily.org/
Based on Lucid and one of the better audio distro's available. Also
comes with a well functioning RT kernel (2.6.33).
Best,
Jeremy
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