Re: Linux 2.6 Kernel, ALSA, and Varga Csound

Well, logically it may seem that way, but the guys at stanford have done a
wonderful job on CCRMA, back before Fedora I had a lot of problems getting
CCRMA to work under redhat 8.0, and wound up doing my own from scratch
setup, but in the end I'm a musician and don't want to spend all my free
time patching and  recompiling my kernel. Fedora doesn't have good audio
support by itself, but when you install CCRMA on top of it, you get a ton
of great software and everything sets itself up on Fedora seamlessly, even
on a laptop.

They're trying to push Enterprise Server to big organizations like Sony
that need a commercial OS with support, and where they've come to expect
and even demand per-seat liscensing.

Fedora really seems stable enough to run a web or database server no
problem, its just that if something goes wrong you have to figure it out
for yourself.

Enterprise is meant to do stuff like run Oracle databases, for linux audio
systems you'd never want to run Redhat enterprise, CCRMA is only
supporting Fedora going forward.



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Iain Duncan wrote:

> Hmm, off the top of my head, that makes me a little more wary of RedHat and
> Fedora frankly. This may be totally unfounded, but it seems to me that
> whenever an OS's goals are principally commercial, features that are good
> for audio are generally displaced by features that are good for security and
> general use. Am I off base here or have others noticed the same kind of
> trend? Debian is strictly free both ways correct? ( Beer and libre . . . )
> 
> Iain
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Conder" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CsndTek] Linux 2.6 Kernel, ALSA, and Varga Csound
> 
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Iain Duncan wrote:
> >
> > > What is fedora?
> >
> > From what I gather, RedHat has split their distro into an
> > enterprise ($$$) and a community (aka hobbyist?) version. The enterprise
> > version is sold along with their support. Fedora is their community
> > version (no charge, AFAIK) and doesn't come with any support.
> >
> > To avoid trademark restrictions on the community version, they
> > changed the name to Fedora. More Fedora information is available here:
> > http://fedora.redhat.com/
> >
> > --
> > Kevin Conder, kevin-NPx+F0K3cJ/[email protected]
> >
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