Re: [LAU] How to keep an updated "standard" linux audio system?

From: jonetsu <jonetsu@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Dec 10 2017 - 19:05:14 EET

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:52:05 -0300
Fede <federicogalland@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> My question is: How do you people keep an updated system stable? Do
> you wipe your drive clean and start over every ubuntu LTS release?
>
> If you are not on a debian based distro, how do you handle the lack of
> a kxstudio repo?

I use Linux Mint since maybe 7 years, or more. I update through the
Mint update application. I choose a long term release so it can stay
the same for years, eg. getting security updates for maybe 4 years or
more so no need to fully update. After installing Mint I go through
my checklist for audio use and install a proper kernel, some libraries,
the soft synths, the plugins, etc. And that's it. Everything can run
fine for years, from past experience.

Naturally, all the data is not anywhere near a system partition. This
means that all data can be shared amongst any Linux OS that can be
booted. So once in every 5 years or so I update the OS by
installing a brand new one somewhere else. Then I go trough the
checklist, and make the symlinks to the data and it's basically ready
to go.

Cheers.
_______________________________________________
Linux-audio-user mailing list
Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden
https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
Received on Mon Dec 11 00:15:03 2017

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon Dec 11 2017 - 00:15:03 EET