Re: Demudi to 64 Studio migration? [was: Upgrading ardour in Demudi 1.2.0 + Re : test]

I'm sticking with Debian Etch. So far so good. It has most of what I've need, and I've found it
straightforward to upgrade the few packages I needed upgraded, or to build the few bleeding-edge things I
need from source.

My biggest problems to date have nothing to do with distributions, but rather with my tuning for my specific hardware.

64studio looks cool, but it smells to me like a commercial product, and I'm allergic to those. Also, I'm on an
Intel machine and it seems those are poor sisters to AMD as far as 64studio is concerned.

But, if AGNULA is 2 years old and not being maintained, it's hard to call it anything other than dead.

-ken
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:09:25PM -0600, rxKaffee wrote:
> As for nvidia and xorg, I had both working fine (from debian and 3rd party
> repositorys) with demudi 1.3. I even had beryl running as the window manager
> in gnome, enlightenment and xfce4 for a while.
> 
> I however found it very awkward and time consuming maintaining my system the
> "debian" way. So I will be running Gentoo, and just "manually" install (via
> portage/emerge) the music softwares that I need.
> 
> Hopefully I'm not hijacking the thread with this question... but are any of
> these combined music packages (demudi, 64studio, ubuntu media, etc.) being
> maintained in such a way as to provide an easy route for porting to other
> distros? Meta-packages w/ external patches or something maybe(this would be
> right up Gentoo's ally!)?
> 
> I look forward to seeing what direction this project takes from here.
> rxKaffee
> 
> On 1/16/07, tim hall <tech <at> glastonburymusic.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> >On Tuesday 16 January 2007 04:20, Steve Corwin was like:
> >> if knowledgeable users like Tim Hall are not around the value
> >> of this list will decline significantly.
> >
> >I wasn't planning on going anywhere. ;) If the list moves, I shall
> >probably
> >move with it. Which is bad news for anyone who finds me irritating!-]
> >
> >Because of the work I am doing and the kind of systems I am running, it
> >became
> >apparent that it was time for me to stop persevering with the minimally
> >maintained DeMuDi-1.3 and get on board with 64Studio-1.0. That doesn't
> >mean
> >everyone else should do likewise. So long as there is a pool of people
> >running the 1.2 series, then this list can provide support, empower
> >yourselves! My answers on the subject are likely to become more vague as I
> >get more involved with the 64Studio process.
> >
> >I do think that there is a fairly clear upgrade path: DeMuDi-1.2 ->
> >DeMuDi-1.3 -> 64Studio-1.0 so the DeMuDi repositories do need to be
> >maintained in order to give people the chance. For new machines I shall
> >use
> >the CD installer, but I like the idea that you only have to install Debian
> >once.
> >--
> >cheers,
> >
> >tim hall