[ubuntu-studio-devel] Feature Spec discussion: ubuntustudio-desktop

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, 18 May 2014, bart deruyter wrote:

> Hi,
> the reason for upgrading each 6 months and not sticking to LTS version is
> mainly Krita and Blender for me. Those are evolving so fast it's hard to
> keep up without upgrading. The dependencies change with them because they
> often use latest stable versions of certain libraries. Because for me
> personally I do need or want to use the new features of those applications
> (e.g. fire and smoke rendering in cycles (blender), painting in tiles for
> textures (krita) ) it becomes hard to stick to LTS versions and even then I
> have to add for example kubuntu-backports to my system.
> 
> Bottom line is that the reason to upgrade to the non-LTS versions is that
> development between OS and applications is not synchronised. 

The audio world has been moving quite quickly too. (though maybe not as 
fast as blender in the past year or so) Certainly Ardour3 showed up 
between LTSs and some of the pulse fixes were quite signifcant as well.

As a ballance to that Harison Mixbus is still a very valid tool and still 
"worth buying" even though it is bassed on ardour 2. There are a number of 
people who are just not using some of the new tools and still do amazing 
recordings with past LTS (some no longer supported). I think For people 
doing keyboard centred or electronic music things are moving fast enough 
to do more keeping up than just LTS.

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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net