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" 
To: 
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" 
> > To: 
> > 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/JPsQM1GlYx9BPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org
> > >
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