[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA *not* in the press

[Nicholas Manojlovic]

I agree somewhat - I don't want to get all negative about the other distros,
but I certainly haven't ever found the same quality or performance. Maybe
its just because I enjoy Fedora the best, and I find the 'add a repository'
as easy as piss to set up (I find Ubuntu a myriad of repos far too hard to
understand).

Personally I don't use any of the 'academic' packages - I'm a simple Ardour,
midi and soft-synth kind of guy and I can't say I've ever had a problem.

My own personal theory is that the website is a little dated, which can lead
to confusion. Perhaps its time for a wiki?



On 8/7/07, Hector Centeno <hcengar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 Csound, PD, Supercollider, etc are sometimes absent or outdated in these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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