[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA *not* in the press

[Hector Centeno]

I do have some theories too. Something that I noticed is that there seems to
be a positive proliferation of Linux Audio distros (UbuntuStudio, 64Studio,
Musix, JackLab) but only Planet CCRMA has "academic" music composers
included in it's target audience (at least it seems to me), this is
something that I find great since my interest is in electroacoustic music
and sound art. The other distros seem to be more inclined to worry about
providing tools for other genera of music, which is fine! Packages like
Csound, PD, Supercollider, etc are sometimes absent or outdated in these
distros, as well as other audio processing tools. I find that in the case of
UbuntuStudio the disadvantages are that the maintainers are reluctant to
provide any other packages outside of the ones already available in the main
Ubuntu repository, which lacks a lot in the audio and music area. I found
that the UbuntuStudio maintainers maybe are not really that much into Linux
music and audio since I found (through reading the mailing lists) that they
don't know of the existence of some fundamental packages (FreeBoB/FFADO for
instance, and other audio apps).  The good side about Ubuntu is that the
other components of the system work quite well and are usually ready to use
without needing to much configuration. I guess the fact that CCRMA comes
from an academic context makes it also not that "popular" as the other ones.

Anyways, sorry for the rant, I just wanted to share some thoughts and thanks
for the good work behind CCRMA.

Cheers,

Hector

On 8/5/07, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 21:37 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > After reading the list of distros in that article (got the link from
> > yourpost at the Ardour list) I wondered the same thing: how come
> > Planet CCRMA is not here when is the most exhaustive and up to date
> > Linux Audio application repository? Also with one very hard working
> > maintainer behind.
>
> Thanks for the kind words.
>
> As to why, I don't know. Planet CCRMA used to be mentioned when there
> were articles about music and linux, I'll have to have a serious talk
> with my Marketing Department Leader! :-)
>
> (I do have my own theories, of course :-)
> -- Fernando
>
> >
> > Hector
>
> > On 8/4/07, Stephan Neuhaus <sten at artdecode.de> wrote:
> >         Dear list,
> >
> >         Spiegel Online, one of Germany's most-read online magazines,
> >         has a brief
> >         article about making music under Linux.  See
> >         http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,497951,00.html
> >
> >         Right at the top of the article, it says that "Linux users
> >         have the
> >         choice between at least five current distributions geared
> >         specially
> >         processing audio: 64 Studio, Dynabolic, Jacklab, Musix, and
> >         Ubuntu
> >         Studio." (my translation).
> >
> >         There is no mention of PlanetCCRMA in the article.  This
> >         suggests that
> >         it keeps a slightly low profile among music
> >         distributions.  This may be
> >         deliberate; it just astonished me since I have been using
> >         PlanetCCRMA
> >         for so long :-)
> >
> >         Anyway, have fun and keep up the good work,
> >
> >         Stephan
> >
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