Re: Planet Vs Agnula, was Linux 2.6 Kernel etc

For Csound they work about the same,CCRMA has more applications than
Agnula, but its really about personal prefs, I found that Debian was too
difficult to get working on my laptop, so I opted for Fedora, but I run
both and I'd say they're about equally decent.



On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Iain Duncan wrote:

> Ok, this is all good to know. And I realize this more a question for a linux
> users list, but I'm interested in answers from people for whom Csound is a
> priority. If the goal is a stable, low latency, easy to install audio setup
> that caters well to Csound, and one is wanting most of the dirty work done,
> how do Planet CCRMA and Agnula stack up against each other? From what I
> gather on their sites, they both include patched kernels and many audio apps
> installed for you. I think both of  these have the potential to really bring
> new people to linux audio and csound.
> 
> I'd really like to be able to use a Jack'd Csound as an automatable ( by
> score or midi ) LADSPA plug-in in Ardour, that would be hella cool.
> 
> Thanks,
> Iain
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Redfern" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [CsndTek] 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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