[PlanetCCRMA] [Fedora-music-list] [Fwd: Sulfur: works out of the box]

[Christoph Doerbeck]

That is great news!! I'm upgrading to F9 as I write this.  Now I just
need firewire/FFADO (to stream audio from a focusrite) & an rt kernel.
Then, for my purposes most of what I need should be out-of-box.

-christoph


On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 18:45 +0200, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Good to hear from happy users....
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Ebrahim Mayat <ebmayat at mac.com>
> To: planetccrma at ccrma.Stanford.EDU
> Subject: [PlanetCCRMA] Sulfur: works out of the box
> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:00:05 -0400
> 
> Greetings
> 
> The upgrade to F9 went very smoothly using preupgrade-0.9.3-3. There
> was very little downtime as it was possible to carry on using F8 while
> preupgrade was downloading the updated packages. Depending on the size
> of one's installation and the speed of your connection, this can take
> between 3-6 hours. For me, this is a better alternative than downloading
> the Install DVD or CDs. 
> 
> After a reboot, the 2nd installer image was downloaded. While the
> option to do a clean install is present, one can also just upgrade an
> existing installation. 
> 
> The other good news is that jack, ardour, audacity, qsynth, qsampler,
> sweep and zynaddsubfx ALL WORKED.
> 
> Fernando, if you could forward this message of deep gratitude to the
> guys at RedHat, I would appreciate it.
> 
> THANKS AGAIN.
> E
> 
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