Re: [Fedora-music-list] Fedora Jam Spin in the Release Notes
On 09/03/2012 07:16 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
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Hi everybody:
I know the Fedora 18 Alpha release has been pushed back for two weeks in a row,
but even with that delay, I just realized the Release Notes are due very soon.
We have a "Musicians" beat under the "What's New in Fedora for
Specific Audiences"
category, but I'm not sure what to say. Why would musicians choose Fedora Jam over
regular Fedora? Or over, say, kxstudio?
That's a really good question. At the moment without different themes
all we have is a threadirq enabled Fedora with almost all of the audio
packages. IT is almost impossible to have a working audio distro out of
the box when so much configuration is required on the hardware side. If
it was easy to do it would have been done already ;)
kxstudio packages things which are really not meant to be packaged and
also have exclusive access to the TAL-* plugin source code and ships
them as binaries (maybe I should just contact the author myself).
kxstudio also packages and releases software against upstreams wishes
which is something I won't do (examples are Ardour 3 and Ingen). I've
been promised a release of Ingen by the end of Septmeber and already
have all the dependencies in place, but we will see. I'm not going to
nag upstream about that or we'll never see it.
The maintainer of AV Linux just threw the towel in (it was 32bit only
anyway) so we may pick up some people exiting there.
Here's what I've got so far; please help me expand this:
- - - rtirq means better hardware performance
Yes - but this is something that will
not work out of the box - hardware
dependant (being a hardware softirq prioritizer), this is where we need
some doc help. If you need some more info just ask and I'll try and
supply something concise and submit upstream also. Install and read the
docs is the best place to start. This link is awesome - we need
something like this (the whole page really) on the Fedora wiki [1]
- - - JACK installed and enabled/integrated by default (what's
the best word?)
- by default we have pulseaudio creating pulse/jack sinks/sources
by
default. We also have Jorn's Fedora Jam control app which I will have
reviewed by the end of the week. We need testing here so download the
SRPM and build the app [2].
- - can run audio-optimized OS without installing it (theoretically)
- - - features the "latest and greatest" FOSS audio software
- - - SuperCollider and PureData are moved from PlanetCCRMA to Fedora proper
Soon I
hope.
- - - visual design and artwork by the Fedora audio community (will
this even be true?)
I have tried again to enlist the help of the design team (see reply to
your other post)
The more detail, and especially the more features, we have to write about, the
better. Whatever I put in the Release Notes will be copied almost verbatim into the
Musicians' Guide.
Cool - thanks for the effort! We really need to start producing now. We
are entering into a crucial phase for the audio spin. If we don't all
pitch in now I fear our efforts over the last few months will be all
laid to waste ...
[1] http://wiki.linuxmusicians.com/doku.php?id=system_configuration#rtirq
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849026