Happy new year Blaise, everyone, Now that I am back in professional groove, let me speak to a couple of these in context. On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
I don't think it'll make much of a difference for command line usage. The differences are more in the graphical desktop environments, packaging and distribution, etc. This certainly makes sense, and as you discovered from my list of various command line programs for various music creation, they are largely in stable Debian distributions already.
The reason I like KXStudio is that you can install the distribution on the machine, *or* you can just add the KXStudio repositories to a supported Debian or Ubuntu installation. Again, you are the voice of practical reason. granted, I prefer installing the best Debian first then layering in the extras. Some posts here in other therads though may suggest issues with Jessie. I want this machine to automatically boot to the console, since i will not be using it directly. If Jessie now makes this a challenge, what is the best and least difficult solution?
Since I was already using Debian (Jessie), it was convenient for me to just add the KXStudio repositories to my existing machine. (The only extra step was getting the Liquorix kernel, since the KXStudio repositories don't include a low latency kernel.) That way I could have all the stability and familiarity of Debian, but with up-to-date audio packages, and KXStudio assistance in optimizing configuration for real-time audio.
Stability is 10000% the goal here, I do not want to spend or lose allot of time because things do not work well together. I am simply not that solid in Debian and have never found locally in person training in the operating system.
I haven't tried AVLinux myself, but I don't think it'll be all that different
from Debian or KXStudio as for as command line access goes.
I am really feeling that it will be easiest to add the tools like kxstudio and the low latency kennel to a stable established Debian floor, booting into the console assured I mean.
ps I was scanning the discussion on LAU about this. I think F. Silvain is right that most of the differences between difference audio distributions aren't relevant for command line usage ( ) , but he just overlooked a few things:
I might be wrong, but i believe Fanci is a woman, and by her own admission a hobbyist in music making not a professional. Still as I said before there are so many command line tools that do the job, those may be best regardless.
- package management, software updates: if you're familiar with Debian/Ubuntu, then you might prefer aptitude/apt-get to Arch's repository management, or vice versa. This is used for installing new packages, or getting updates to existing packages
but this is my point, I have absolutely zero experience updating packages in this way, certainly no positive efforts. I want to build this house for what I desire and keep using that house as long as possible without having to upgrade every time Debian developers change their hair style if that makes sense.
- The audio distributions still might help with some of the configuration for low latency audio, and getting the latest pro audio packages. You could certainly make those adjustments manually in a non-audio distro, but if you haven't done it before, I still think it'd be worth going with something like AVLinux or KXStudio to reduce that learning curve and get started faster
Amen brother! Kare
>> Kare >> >> >> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015, Bob Jonkman wrote: >> >> At Software Freedom Day we had a great presentation on using Free >> Software for Musical Performance by Blaise Alleyne. He was using >> graphical tools for his performance, but has the Music-On-Linux part >> covered. He may have expertise in command-line musical performance >> tools too. I'll ping him with this message. >> >> I wonder what it would take to convince Blaise to haul his studio >> equipment up to the room at Ryerson to do his presentation for >> GTALUG... :) >> >> --Bob. >> >> SFDToronto: >> http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2015/Canada/Toronto/LibrePlanet >> >> >> Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> Phone: +1-519-635-9413 >> SOBAC Microcomputer Services http://sobac.com/sobac/ >> Software --- Office & Business Automation --- Consulting >> GnuPG Fngrprnt:04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA >> >> >> On 10/12/15 07:17 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>>>> greetings everyone, My name is Karen. I have only recently found >>>>> this LUG, and joined the talk list. I am a professional singer/ >>>>> songwriter and media producer with a unique Linux goal. I wish to >>>>> make use of the varied console or command line based tools in Linux >>>>> for my composition work, and if possible for accessing media >>>>> materials too. I use adaptive technology, which is part of why my >>>>> desire is to ssh telnet into my Linux box rather than work with it >>>>> directly. I tend to prefer more traditional tools. for example one >>>>> sound card in this box will be an m-audio audiofile 2496 >>>>> production card to which I will be attaching my music keyboard. In >>>>> any case while I have some of the tools I require, and firm >>>>> knowledge that my goals are possible. I have not, at least not >>>>> until now, found a Linux users group in Toronto where I can get the >>>>> extra wisdom required. I am very used to Linux and UNIX based shell >>>>> structures. I am using one at this moment based in freedsb, to >>>>> draft my email, and use another based in Ubuntu for my nonprofit >>>>> media newsroom's hosting account. Such is also part of why I want >>>>> to start with a comparative way to use my Linux box. I would >>>>> rather begin with a foundation where I can make use of and learn >>>>> more right away, than fail to use the Linux box well at all. Let me >>>>> be sure my post is suitable before both asking and answering >>>>> questions. Thanks in advance, Karen >>>>> >>>>> --- Talk Mailing List talk at gtalug.org >>>>> http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>> --- >>> Talk Mailing List >>> talk at gtalug.org >>> http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>> >> --- >> Talk Mailing List >> talk at gtalug.org >> http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > --- > Talk Mailing List > talk at gtalug.org > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > --- Talk Mailing List talk at gtalug.org http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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