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Since AV Linux is Debian Squeeze, you can of course use their repos.

Like I said, AVL comes with full build env. to build all you need on your=

 own.

However, the packages delivered by AVL are quite up to date, stable, and =

all

apps I've tried (some only shortly) worked. A few days ago I tried Tango =

Studio

(based on Ubuntu 10.10) and almost nothing worked ootb. So I quickly skip=

ped it.
NVidia & ATI drivers are installed through the means of a helper script.

Eve though it's 32-bit, there's a PAE rt-kernel available if you have 4 G=

B of

RAM or more.

The developer is very responsive and the forum quickly helps you out in c=

ase of

trouble.
I see no real advantage for my machine (AMD Athlon 7750BE, ASRock AOD790G=

X/128M,

4 GB RAM OCZ, Radeon HD4650, Delta 1010LT, BCR2000 etc...) in using a 64-=

bit

audio distro,

as long as there's a PAE kernel available.
I don't use evolution, so can't comment. For me an audio distro doesn't n=

eed all

those office,

email or whatever stuff. Just a browser (FF for me), and pidgin.
I've long observed your discussions about MIDI jitter on the 64-Studio li=

st.

Still, I can't comment

because I never perceived such issues. At least not since my last PC buil=

d.
You shouldn't need any additional repos imho, since the AVL repo is well =

filled

with audio software.

And then there's always Debian Multimedia. Always depending on what you p=

lan to

do of course.
Regards,
Raphael ;)
Am 29.05.2011 14:55, wrote Ralf Mardorf:
> On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 13:42 +0200, R.Wolff wrote:

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>> Try AV Linux.

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

 for

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>> compiling from source.

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

>>

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

>>

>> Hth,

>>

>> Raphael ;)

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

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

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 outdated and I needed to build some audio apps from svn.

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

> off at the moment.

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

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> So a few questions to Robin.

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> It's essential that building

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

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>         - JACK2 from svn won't cause issues (I need it regarding to the=

>          -Xalsarawmidi switch, that enables the usage of hw MIDI withou=

t

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

>         below 1 ms)

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>         - Building an customized kernel-rt is easy to do (I guess I can=

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

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>         attachment)

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>         - Install Ardour3 alpha releases without issues

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> Hopefully evolution (2.30.3-5) can use Evolution 2.32.2 settings for

> filters? And not only import the mails?

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> Any repositories I need to add? Any repositories I should avoid?

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> -- Ralf

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