Re: [LAU] Switching the distro

From: Oon-Ee Ng <ngoonee.talk@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun May 29 2011 - 15:56:06 EEST

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> 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.html
> http://lists.64studio.com/pipermail/64studio-users/2011-February/004661.html
>
> ;)
>
> 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 stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...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 If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty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Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you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. If
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.
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