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On 05/29/2011 02:56 PM, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:

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> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf

>  wrote:

>> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:19 +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:

>>> On 05/29/2011 12:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

>>>> I've got a absolutely stable and MIDI jitter free Ubuntu MIDI and audio

>>>> worksattion, regarding to audio apps, but it was very time consuming to

>>>> set it up

>>>

>>> Do make a backup of the current setup!! That may come in handy.

>>

>> When there was no MIDI jitter for hw midi, this was the first thing I

>> did. In general I'm making backups very often and I don't sync one

>> backup archive, I always make completely new backups and keep at least

>> the last two backups.

>>

>>> All of your preferences will be met by debian. Pulseaudio is optional

>>> and the debian-multimedia team are on the forefront when it comes to

>>> pro-audio packages.

>>>

>>> Also note that OpenDAW (64studio's successor in the making) is based on

>>> debian/squeeze.

>>

>> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004657....

>> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004661....

>>

>> ;)

>>

>> A while ago I tidied up my HDDs and removed most installs.

>>

>> I kept Suse 11.2 and Ubuntu Maverick only.

>> Then I installed Natty.

>>

>> I'll keep those and additionally install Debian, I hope that Debian

>> stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...

>>

>> If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty

>> immediately.

>>

>> Thanks a lot,

>>

>> Ralf

>

> Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you

> can have =). This is great for stability (as the name implies), but

> don't expect to see some new software for maybe up to a year or 2. 

A /stable/ system in a studio or on stage is a good thing! YMMV.
But outdated packages is not true [any more]. e.g. debian/stable offers

ardour-2.8.11 (the current release), IOhannes is personally pushing Pd

to debian/git and you already find the latest LV2/lilv/SUIL/.. in sid.

need to list more?
For a desktop/devel system you can run a mixed stable/testing/sid by

just adding them to /etc/apt/sources.list (either manually or with your

favorite package manager - here are the files I use:

http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/etc-apt-sources.list.gz

http://rg42.org/_media/wiki/etc-apt-preferences.gz

)
> If

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> you really have to have the latest there'll be stability sacrifices to

> make, but something like Arch (which I use) is great. More maintenance

> needed though, especially if you update close to daily. Once you've

> got a good system going it makes sense to only update when you don't

> have a big project coming up.

Full ack on Arch. It's a fine distro. just a matter of taste and

'workflow'.
robin
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