Re: Presentation + A debian-based for audio creation and production, stage technics and video blend (or "the future of TangoStudio")
On 11/13/2012 11:27 AM, Aurélien - Chargé de Porn - AMMD wrote:
I finally would distinguish two "extreme"-kind of end-users for that
domain:
- the ones wanting something that works out of the box, with package
preinstalled, nice look and feel, and that won't trust you that it's
possible to have a nice WM just because you tell them it is (even if you
show them),
You'll have to find a professional company to be able to deliver this. I
think you should realize that such a hand full of people in this group
will choose linux anyway. There is no cubase no Ableton Live, no VST on
Linux. They're better of with OSX probably anyway.
- the ones (like me), who hate to have unused softwares on their system,
wasted diskspace, wasted ressources, and so on, the ones installing
Debian with the netinstall CD and "base-system" only.
Exactly the group of people for which linux is interesting. The sound /
mixing engineers, the people who wants to do special stuff like
ambisonics and Supercollider, OSC etc.
I think Debian as a whole already fits the needs of the second ones, as
they're able to do what they want/need from a "Debian scracth".
However, there is not solution in Debian for the first group.
Offering a ready to install installation image costs way too much time
imho.
On that point, I totally might be wrong*, but I feel once meta-packages
exists, it's "just" a matter of preseed, as when you use live-build.
To be perfectly clear: I think all (or almost) the requested packages
for such a use of Debian are already in Debian as a whole.
You'll hit many unseen problems. Building an iso might cost you already
serveral hours, test it, hit bugs, rebuild, test, bug in live-build etc
etc. I think you're wrong.
Get the Debian Blend done and see when that is settled whether you're
stupid enough to try to deliver images ;)
You want too much, the people who benefit from it is relative small and
thinking that you can compete with OSX / Cubase / Ableton / ProTools and
'convert' a bunch of people to linuxaudio is a great illusion at this
point and you've to get rid of that thinking as soon as possible!!!
Linuxaudio is great, but for a relative small and selective group of people.
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