Re: (rant) Is there any hope

[Rick Green]

I see some light up ahead in the tunnel!

About once a week since Beta 1 came out at the beginning of the month, 
I've been downloading and trying out the daily build of 12.04.


Today, I saw the best 'out of the box' experience with a live DVD ever!

I booted the DVD on my AMD64 laptop, launched qjackctl, opened the 'setup' 
window, selected the 'firewire' driver, clicked OK, accepting all other 
defults.  Clicked 'start', and jack found my focusrite (pro26io) interface 
and started up.
  I launched Ardour, created a new session, added two mono tracks, plugged 
in an available source of audio, and started recording.  The recording ran 
for 25 minutes with NO xruns until the ramdisk filled up.  It stopped 
recording, threw up a message log window, but DID NOT crash jack.
  I 'rewound' the playhead, hit play.  Switched to a second desktop, 
launched ffado-mixer.  It threw a message about inability to connect to 
the dbus server, but succeeded when I hit 'retry'.  I tweaked some of the 
output mixer settings, and I hear clean audio coming from my monitors.


  This is a base level of stability and pre-configuration that I expect 
from a distro, but have never seen in any distro up to this day.  Kudos to 
the team!


--
Rick Green

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  -Benjamin Franklin

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our
safety and our ideals.
   -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009

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Re: (rant) Is there any hope

[Scott Lavender]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Rick Green r...@aapsc.com wrote:
 I see some light up ahead in the tunnel!

 About once a week since Beta 1 came out at the beginning of the month, I've
 been downloading and trying out the daily build of 12.04.

 Today, I saw the best 'out of the box' experience with a live DVD ever!

 I booted the DVD on my AMD64 laptop, launched qjackctl, opened the 'setup'
 window, selected the 'firewire' driver, clicked OK, accepting all other
 defults.  Clicked 'start', and jack found my focusrite (pro26io) interface
 and started up.
  I launched Ardour, created a new session, added two mono tracks, plugged in
 an available source of audio, and started recording.  The recording ran for
 25 minutes with NO xruns until the ramdisk filled up.  It stopped recording,
 threw up a message log window, but DID NOT crash jack.
  I 'rewound' the playhead, hit play.  Switched to a second desktop, launched
 ffado-mixer.  It threw a message about inability to connect to the dbus
 server, but succeeded when I hit 'retry'.  I tweaked some of the output
 mixer settings, and I hear clean audio coming from my monitors.

  This is a base level of stability and pre-configuration that I expect from
 a distro, but have never seen in any distro up to this day.  Kudos to the
 team!

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 Rick Green

 Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
 temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
                                  -Benjamin Franklin

 As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our
 safety and our ideals.
                               -President Barack Obama 20 Jan 2009

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thank you rick for your comments.

we have been working hard to make this release something special (with
more plans in the future) and being recognized for the improvements is
very appreciated!

thanks again,
scottl

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