Ubuntu is not a good distribution for Multimedia

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Hi Ben,

As far as I understand it, Ubuntu is one of the distros that offers the
most complete package selection. What distro were you using before that
had all the softaware you wanted in the very latest version that you
wanted ?

Also, Ubuntu as extremely quick at adding updated versions to their
repository. I am using Gnumeric, a spreahseet program. The latest stable
version was released 2 weeks ago, and I found out the within 24 or 48
hours, theere were already .deb packages for it on the Ubuntu server.
However these are for the development version of Ubuntu. Obviously, if
you are running the stable version which was released only a month ago,
then you will have to wait 5 month for the next stable Ubuntu to be
released, in april.
However nothing stops you from installing these packages on the current
stable Ubuntu, you just need to enable the Hoary repositories in
Synaptic and downlaod from there.

Also, you can always get whatever program you want, just grab the
sources and compile it ! If you are into compilng kernels like you say,
you must a highly skilled and experience Linux user, so compiling an
application must be peanuts for you.

So, I don't see anything that could stop you from using Ubuntu.. welcome
aboard Ben !! :o)

Regards,

Vince


> Have been investigating what distribution we should use for our
> multimedia PCs and I am afraid that Ubuntu fairs fairly badly.  most
> of the serious audio/video production software is either nowhare to be
> found or in universe as VERY old versions.
> 
> The software I am refuring to is stuff like ardour, audacity, jack,
> jamin, hydroigen, Cinelerra.
> 
> I understand that Warty is the first release but would like to get a
> feel for how seriously Ubuntu is going to be supporting this type of
> hight end Desktop use in the future.
> 
> Also has anyone built or got a howto for building a low latency kernel
> for Ubuntu.
> 
> Ben