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audiodef
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Currently running a test build that will build binary packages and use a binhost. What I'm hoping this will do is make updates faster and avoid compile failures. As few as they are for stable packages, it happens and it's annoying. However, I am setting things up so that when a user updates decibel Linux, if any package dependencies or USE flags have changed (because the user changed something to fit their needs), the package will be built from source. Otherwise those new dependencies or USE flags won't be used. But I think overall it will be an improvement to updating installed systems.
It's possible a user might update their system before I've updated the binhost, which means a package update with no package on the binhost will be compiled from source. But the goal is to eventually have binhost updates and install tarball builds automated on a regular basis. Once that's in place, it's more likely than not that packages will be updated from the binhost. (Again, barring changes made by the user that effects a binhost package.)
System packages might be included later, but for now, the binhost will cover only the world set - packages intentionally installed for decibel Linux.
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szatox
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Slightly OT, but here we go... I think I've been (mostly silently) watching you running this project for over a decade by now, and looking at your work and at my own projects, and I gotta say I'm actually a bit jealous of your grit.
So I wonder: how do you manage to keep going? Is there some trick I can steal from you and apply to things on my own todo lists? |
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audiodef
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Szatox,
I think Gentoo is awesome. I love music, recording and sound engineering. Frustration with Windows many years ago put me on the path to alternatives. I tried Ubuntu Studio once, but on the same computer, using Gentoo + tweaks felt more responsive and efficient. I'm really into music production, and no other OS has ever been as satisfactory for me as the one I put together myself. That's it - my whole motivation.
Turning it into something others can download and use is just a way for me to share this combined love of Gentoo and recording engineering.
Feel free to ask for advice on your own related projects. I may not have all the answers, but it's fun to talk about.
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bent fender
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: Gentoo Studio/decibel Linux: Gentoo-based pro-audio OS |
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| audiodef wrote: | Welcome to the FGO thread for decibel Linux, a Gentoo Linux-based OS for pro-audio applications. Intended users are:
- Musicians recording their own material
- Mix engineers
- Mastering engineers
- Computer music composers
And any other users who need an OS for audio applications.
Please post in this thread if you have any questions, suggestions or need help with anything.
There are also these venues for interaction and support:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/decibellinux
Discord: https://discord.gg/73XV24dNPN
IRC: #decibellinux on Libera |
I'm TOTALLY green in Gentooland but I am using a couple of 'studio' distros. What I do doesn't really require real-time and is mostly (in usual loading order)
qjackctl
qsynth
yoshimi
hydrogen
rosegarden
zyn-dssi
in other sessions
qjackctl
audacity
kdenlive
Sans-prejudice my experience with studio distros has been a letdown seeing that I have just as many issues with consistent all around operabilty as with mainline battle tanks, Suse being by far the best (too bad they use systemd).
What I think is just as good (an idea) is a studio package pattern (stage in gentooese?) that installs and updates ALL the music apps as a maintained cohesive superpackage. Now that I have found out about Gentoo-Studio or Decibel-Linux I am sure to try it. Maybe for the time being I should just contine trying to get Gentoo up and running with XFCE and/or KDE before crawling into even deeper trouble  (I DL'd it for the firs time just last night)
Your advice is of course both welcome and garanteed to be valuable.
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bent fender,
Gentoo is not a distro like you are used to. Its a toolkit you use to design and install bent fender linux.
Gentoo is the portage package manager and the ::gentoo repo. Everything else is $UPSTREAM.
audiodef used the toolkit to create decibel Linux.
My advice is to continue with your install. You will get to lean how to use the design controls that binary distro cannot provide.
They must do the design for you,
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