i have used dynebolic+puredyne in live situations, with really good performance, also i have used ubuntu studio (hardy) for graphics and audio, and for me, it works ok,
what i like:
Updated very frequently, the guys work hard fixing things and trying to improve the distro
i like the concept of "just use it", don't mess with kernel stuff and compiling things, so you have time for the fun stuff
Apt-get works great, just search for the app, install and use it
Many of the interesting audio/video apps are ready to use
Great support from the ubuntu community
Good graphics support
what i don't like:
Sometimes things get broken when you do an update , so you have to wait for a couple of days until a new update comes
by the way fedora/ccrma distro is solid as a rock in audio, but it lacks good 3d support, now if you can compile the needed drivers, you should consider it.
M.
M.
2008/7/13 Derek Holzer <
derek@umatic.nl>:
Hey gang,
In a search for distraction from the project I'm really supposed to be
working on, I decided to update my (until now stable but very outdated)
Gentoo media editing machine. A couple days of circular package blocks,
missing dependencies and vanishing libraries later, I'm really curious
why I once decided it was a good idea to compile everything myself ;-)
(Note to Gentooers: "emerge --update --deep world" once a month, or get
the thing stable and never touch it again! If you wait too long, and
your current packages go out of Portage, it can be hellish!).
So if and when this machine is hosed, what would be a good distro to put
on it? I don't feel much like the super-hacker I was a four or five
years ago when I got into Gentoo, but I like a distro that I can
configure to be extremely minimal and transparent. And what is
absolutely necessary is that it has well-configured versions of all the
audio softs that I depend on, such as Ardour (w/ VST support!), Jamin,
LADSPAs, JACK, etc. Realtime/prempt kernel = A-OK. Ability to use
PD-Extended is of course a plus, and also the ability to mount HFS+
drives without destroying them (as Ubuntu has done to me in the past) is
also necessary.
I looked at Ubuntu Studio, but I wanted to ask who actually uses it.
From the page it seems like maybe it's not well-maintained, and that's
another requirement for me after messing around with different
audio-related overlays for Portage that eventually get abandoned.
If Ubuntu Studio isn't the right one, can anyone suggest another option?
My last criteria is that it has a coherent user community and excellent
docs (strongest point of Gentoo, and from what I recall a weak point of
straight Debian, IMHO).
thx + best!
D.
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"How would you have done it?"
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