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sometimes absent or outdated in these distros, as well as other audio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.<br>
<br>
Anyways, sorry for the rant, I just wanted to share some thoughts and thanks for the good work behind CCRMA.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Hector<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fernando Lopez-Lezcano</b> <<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 21:37 -0400, Hector Centeno wrote:<br>> After reading the list of distros in that article (got the link from<br>> yourpost at the Ardour list) I wondered the same thing: how come<br>> Planet CCRMA is not here when is the most exhaustive and up to date
<br>> Linux Audio application repository? Also with one very hard working<br>> maintainer behind.<br><br>Thanks for the kind words.<br><br>As to why, I don't know. Planet CCRMA used to be mentioned when there<br>
were articles about music and linux, I'll have to have a serious talk<br>with my Marketing Department Leader! :-)<br><br>(I do have my own theories, of course :-)<br>-- Fernando<br><br>><br>> Hector<br><br>> On 8/4/07, Stephan Neuhaus <
<a href="mailto:sten@artdecode.de">sten@artdecode.de</a>> wrote:<br>> Dear list,<br>><br>> Spiegel Online, one of Germany's most-read online magazines,<br>> has a brief<br>> article about making music under Linux. See
<br>> <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,497951,00.html">http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,497951,00.html</a><br>><br>> Right at the top of the article, it says that "Linux users
<br>> have the<br>> choice between at least five current distributions geared<br>> specially<br>> processing audio: 64 Studio, Dynabolic, Jacklab, Musix, and<br>> Ubuntu
<br>> Studio." (my translation).<br>><br>> There is no mention of PlanetCCRMA in the article. This<br>> suggests that<br>> it keeps a slightly low profile among music<br>
> distributions. This may be<br>> deliberate; it just astonished me since I have been using<br>> PlanetCCRMA<br>> for so long :-)<br>><br>> Anyway, have fun and keep up the good work,
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