[CM] what linux?

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 18:18 -0600, Heinrich Taube wrote:
> i think the juce maintainer filed a bug :
> 	> Since the bug was discovered in August this year I'm sure there  
> will be an update for this soon.
> but this message was in 2006...
> 
> the "solution" that im aware of is to wait for package update libxcb  
> 1.1 on fedora. im not sure when that happens which was why i was  
> casting about for another linux distro.

I see... well it would be worth finding which bug # it is and adding
more comments to see what the package maintainer plans are. It might be
that 1.1 introduces even worse bugs :-)

-- Fernando


> > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:37 -0600, Heinrich Taube wrote:
> >> hi nando, there is a deadlock that occurs in juce apps in fedora 8,
> >> here is a link to the discussino about that a student here (Andrew
> >> Burnson) sent to me after he encountered the problem:
> >>
> >> http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/juceforum/viewtopic.php?p=13943&sid=7c2ffb67ea97f6bda6790017ec7547ba
> >>
> >> i think the issue is that the linux juce maintainer is using a
> >> compatibiliy lib called XCB and the version that is required is not  
> >> in
> >> the fedora distro.
> >
> > Have you filed a bug in redhat's bugzilla? ('cause it is a bug)
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
> >
> >> juce works great in my old planetccrma (fedora 3)  but that release
> >> solong in the tooth now its not easy to update apps and software  
> >> base.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:16 -0600, Heinrich Taube wrote:
> >>>> can anyone recommend a well supported linux that i can (easily)
> >>>> install on an older dell?
> >>>> my first choice would be planetccrma except there is some issue
> >>>> with a
> >>>> fedora X library and juce that im not sure i can solve beyond  
> >>>> waiting
> >>>> for the next release of fedora.
> >>>
> >>> What issue are you having? I have juce in the Planet CCRMA
> >>> repositories...
> >>>
> >>> -- Fernando
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> my next choice would be gentoo but their livecd doenst even boot.
> >>>> these are the only linux versions that i know work well (well, at
> >>>> least planetccrma works well but ive heard good things about  
> >>>> gentoo)
> >>>>
> >>>> anyway i dont want an installer that boots me in a shell as  
> >>>> superuser
> >>>> and tells me to run fdisk! (my second attempt at booting gentoo)
> >
> >
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