-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Thanks Julian,
your email got me thinking about the state of linux audio distro's and the linux audio ecosystem, and this brought me to an idea of a possible way forward for us, as former users of the dearly lamented puredyne. Read on for a proposal of how I think we could move forward. I should just mention that although I've mostly been a lurker on this list, like many of you I've had excellent experiences of using puredyne in media workshops and hacklabs over the last few years. I've been reading people's comments here with interest. On 08/02/12 16:35, Julian Brooks wrote: > Obviously going to need a realtime kernel. Are there really decent > benefits from rolling your own to fit your own machine? And again if so > - how? My understanding is that the mainline 3.x series kernels have integrated most of the patches we used to have to apply ourselves to make an RT kernel. So for most people, I guess the answer to your question will be no, there aren't advantages, unless you have esoteric needs. > Personally I would be well chuffed to have a lappy where pretty much > everything is compiled and tweeked for my machine. Not sure how big the > performance gains would be but personal satisfaction-wise it would be > sizeable. Satisfying when it works, but easily broken and impossible to support, from my experience. Of course, the greater your skills, the further you can go with compiling your own software. This got me thinking about empowerment (see below). But the point about configuration and system tweeking is a good one. At the moment, I can see several audio distro's with mediocre distro-specific documentation. There are also documentation projects that are not distro-specific, that have limited usefulness because much of the content is outdated or will only work in particular circumstances. I see an opportunity here for us to put the collective wisdom on this list to work on creating a linux-audio documentation project, that would be aimed at empowering former puredyne users to configure and tweak a base debian system into something like puredyne. This could include an editorial system to make sure that information remained current and applicable to debian-stable. When each 'stable' becomes 'oldstable', we could archive that set of docs and bring out a new 'edition' specifically tested on and aimed at the new stable release. I can see that if a group of us committed to start working on a wiki now, with a view to releasing our first set of documents to coincide with the release of wheezy (or as close as possible), a lot of people would see the value of this as a unifying project, not another duplication or derivative effort. I would expect we'd get a lot of support from the debian-multimedia people, but our project would have a different scope in being focussed on empowering people to make art using FLOSS. And there would be plenty of scope for writing broth-like scripts, automated installers and so on - but keeping everything referenced to a specific base distro. What do you all think about this? Would people be up for it? Or can people think of other ways forward we should discuss first? Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJPM7dxAAoJEESjmmCcNrqTRMcP/1rdLYaE78nqIbv5e0kWoWGF sqbXMI8l4lJEm4Yilsy00kKAlpTx7Sboqs6EtbGrsxDKGUb6T934ucjwwMc/UTam Bi+c0DRLRfqYJDdNKBa2TYgJTVL1n3SRuQs/x5lhnb9oddKloyrkRB1vuBI31D1T dqTn7l5bQ6ktQH9ta4el2Qpd5PahCQSsAYX8MlrSSZKmApivudT2rncw2urLs8uV FJ8QrtuwZQl9R3BHovst79XhikOoUh5ZcNGmnj+GHkuLo2qDKluydieRFM8mLP2r fgOKRLbVBwOL2TRk5ln+Ll08yboRgPlyydyUNeAnE/+tpZyGb39vVT+CciAB89hh rHRnlThZQBmh+U35qZ7W/A157lnkW9MfCVwZGrF9NKDT1Gd4pR8MxMg92kUNmc9A klGyxmQQelsqJCdr30cWLI+x4Wb2pZ7OdCarOWQVkviJcGsB5vYn26D4EQV4pgAx jARL0P2hlIzGkI+Xs/9UefXr40JUkYrM9G3Ww0VpA3OMH0Z4X9q+Qmd7Kpa8BfsH 0tmPyw4tu8tgAlErPzkL0XdzoGAvGbPWlxab9rF/Uw1EwqDNw87Iac32wi3kwjtT HYkC98piJnscSj9DitErNmeWRUX1FyydK8Yc1LGlcMP9BfVQAQfVqeFDYq19rdu1 OMsoBs9PdIj75M4zGvZq =6G2W -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- Puredyne@goto10.org http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
