[PlanetCCRMA] PlanetCCRMA *not* in the press

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:51 +1000, Nicholas Manojlovic wrote:
> 
> 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? 

Just "a little dated"?? You are sooooo kind :-)
It definitely needs a rejuvenation.....
(I'm looking at drupal)

-- Fernando


> 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         etc are sometimes absent or outdated in these distros, as well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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