Re: Contact information for DeMuDi
Hi Andreas,
|--==> Andreas Tille writes:
>>the link at the bottom for Demudi is out of date, since that project
>>hasn't really existed since 2005. The nearest equivalent is our project
>>64 Studio http://www.64studio.com/ but this is not an official Debian
>>project either.
AT> Well, I know that it is no official Debian project - but waht do you
AT> think about the concept of Custom Debian Distributions? Wouldn't it be
AT> attractive for you to come closer to Debian? At least Free who is in
AT> CC as well agreed that this would make some sense.
Well, I think that the concept of pure CDDs, entirely built from
official the Debian repository by simply selecting packages and
preseeding, and possibly integrated in the official Debian releases,
is the Right Thing to do. However this is not always possible in the
real world.
As distribution, 64 Studio 2.0 (released a couple of months after etch
got out) is quite close to a pure CDD, because being a DD I had care
of uploading all packaging work directly to Debian, or submit patches
as needed.
The only outstanding piece package which is not in Debian is the Linux
kernel, which needed to be patched for audio realtime work. I and
other members of the Debian Multimedia Team have once tried to get
this realtime flavor of the kernel in Debian/etch, but we didn't have
enough man power to assure the Debian kernel team that we would have
supported such a flavor for the whole life-time of etch.
We are now about to release 64 Studio 2.1, which will be basically a
2.0 plus backports of audio-specific applications, hence the new
release will be less "pure". I believe this is a general problem with
pure and non pure CDDs, as everybody has different release schedules.
Ciao!
Free
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