On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Jørn Lomax <northlomax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/04/2012 08:08 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Brendan Jones
> <brendan.jones.it(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/03/2012 07:16 PM, Christopher Antila wrote:
>
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> I'm not convinced 64Studio is moving forward either, and the
> openSUSE-based JAD (Jack Audio Distribution) died a few years ago.
> It's down to "us" and Ubuntu Studio at this point, I suspect. I picked
> Fedora over Ubuntu primarily because of the Stanford / Planet CCRMA
> "native" Lisp tool chain - Common Music, Common Lisp Music, Common
> Music Notation and SND. Everything else works pretty much the same on
> any Linux and has the same intellectual property gotchas on any Linux.
>>>
>>> - - - JACK installed and enabled/integrated by default (what's the best
>>> word?)
>
>
> Are you trying to say, 'the "jackuser" group is there and
"liveuser"
> is a member?'
If the spins is approved as is, both the liveuser and the user craeted on
install will belong to both the jackuser and audio group. The liveuser is
pretty much sure to be OK, but to make the created user belong to them uses
a very ugly hack and might not be approved
That's no big deal; most of the time I end up having to add myself to
the vboxusers group anyhow. The biggest annoyance is having to log out
and back in again. ;-)
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