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On 05/29/2011 02:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

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> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:42 +0200, R.Wolff wrote:

>> Try AV Linux.

>> Very well tuned for audio, fast, debian squeeze based, full devel-env. for

>> compiling from source.

>> Uses LXDE, so it's got a low overhead for desktop management.

>>

>> You can testdrive a LiveCD/USB-Stick.

>>

>> Hth,

>>

>> Raphael ;)

>

> A good idea. A long time ago I tested it and I like it.

> BUT ;) I guess I'll use 64-bit.

>

> I simply will download and install Debian stable right now.

> For Ubuntu and Suse I don't like that they switch their releases every

> half year or so, OTOH I experienced dependency hell, when Debian were

> outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn.

>

> By theory Ubuntu is what I would like to use, in life praxis I'm pissed

> off at the moment.

>

> I have to bite the bullet, better outdated, than unreliable.

>

> So a few questions to Robin.

>

> It's essential that building

>

>         - Qtractor from svn will cause no issues (I'm a tester)

Not that I know or can think of. But I've not compiled it myself recently.
>         - JACK2 from svn won't cause issues (I need it regarding to the

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>          -Xalsarawmidi switch, that enables the usage of hw MIDI without

>         audible jitter, I'm not talking about values called ms, much

>         below 1 ms)

Definitely not. I'm debugging^wcontributing to jack2dbus on

debian/squeeze and am partly responsible for the current jack2-svn head

as of writing.
>         - Building an customized kernel-rt is easy to do (I guess I can

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>         use my current Ubuntu Natty script for debian too? See

>         attachment)

should work OOTB thanks to make-kpkg.
>         - Install Ardour3 alpha releases without issues
sure.
> Hopefully evolution (2.30.3-5) can use Evolution 2.32.2 settings for

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> filters? And not only import the mails?

dunno. but you can get 2.32.2-2 from testing and 2.32.3-1 from sid.
OT: as for filtering email: `imapfilter` is a nifty little tool;

configure it once (and preferably run it on a 24/7 server) and never

worry about switching/updating MUA again.
> Any repositories I need to add? Any repositories I should avoid?
debian-multimedia comes in handy for some non-free codec packages.

See links in my other email for examples.
have fun,

robin

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