[OT] Re: rt kernel

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 18:24 +0200, ailo wrote:
[snip]
> It is however worth gold to know what setup you can trust, in what way,
> and with what hardware, even if you don't know why :) (which I seldom do).

Full ACK Ailo.

10.04 LTS Lucid April    2010 - April   2013   = supported for 3   years
10.10 Maverick  October  2010 - April   2012   = supported for 1.5 years
11.04 Natty     April    2011 - October 2012   = supported for 1.5 years
Every 6 month a new version.

SUSE 11.2       November 2009 - May       2011 = supported for 1.5 years
SUSE 11.3       July     2010 - January   2012 = supported for 1.5 years
SUSE 11.4       March    2011 - September 2012 = supported for 1.5 years
Every 8 month a new version.

Debian Etch     April    2007 - February  2010 = supported for 3   years
Debian Lenny    February 2010 - still supported
Debian Squeeze  February 2011 - still supported

'Some lib versions are too old for new apps' vs 'updates for libs aren't
tested long enough'
We should have a stable version and we should have a future version for
tests and bug reports.

Perhaps a distro for DAWs should be handled similar to Ubuntu's server
support for LTS versions, e.g.
10.04 LTS Lucid April    2010 - April   2015   = supported for 5   years

IMO there's a difference between using the computer as a toy or using
the computer as a tool. The computer can be the desire by itself or
music can be the desire, so hunting and comparing versions, special
desktop FX etc. are less relevant.

And there are more computer users who are experienced office workers,
than experienced musicians. Imagine an experience of '20 days a month *
8 hours * several month (years)' using the computer for writing business
correspondences or administrating a server and an experience of '4 hours
* 52 weekends a year * several years' producing music with the computer.

2 Cents,

Ralf