Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 10:50 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
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> 2011/5/31 Steven Rosenberg <stevenhrosenberg@gmail.com>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Ralf Mardorf
> <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> Hi all :)
>
> until now switching to Debian is worth the effort. The
> GNOME2 performance of Debian stable is much better
> than of Ubuntu.
>
> Pulse Audio is not installed by default :).
>
> What repositories should I use to set up a stable DAW?
> Btw. my list is
> attached.
> Is there a repository including JACK2 from svn?
>
>
> You should have everything you need to set up a stable DAW (I am
> assuming you are using debian testing or unstable), probably only a
> realtime kernel is needed.
> Have a look
> at http://www.pengutronix.de/software/linux-rt/debian_en.html if you
> don't want to build your own RT PREEMPT kernel.
> Be sure you are able to run audio apps with the right privileges, eg.
> add your user to the "audio" group in /etc/groups and check
> out /etc/security/limits.conf for these lines
> @audio - rtprio 100
> @audio - nice -10
>
>
> If you want to build ardour3 you need to install libjack0.120 which is
> now in testing and so is jackd2 so there's no need for svn stuffs.
>
>
> regards
> -r
Thank you :)
I'm experienced in setting up audio/MIDI DAWs on Linux. Btw. setting up
nice is nonsense, since it's for rt ;), but memlock is needed.
http://www.jackaudio.org/linux_rt_config
Cheers!
Ralf
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