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

 wrote:

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> 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 stable isn't outdated, http://packages.debian.org/stable/ ...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 If it shouldn't be outdated, I'll install it and stop setting up Natty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Debian stable is just about the most outdated working Linux system you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. 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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