Ubuntu is not a good distribution for Multimedia

[Le grand pinguin]

On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:25:47PM +0000, Ben Edwards wrote:
> Have been investigating what distribution we should use for our
> multimedia PCs and I am afraid that Ubuntu fairs fairly badly.  most
> of the serious audio/video production software is either nowhare to be
> found or in universe as VERY old versions.
> 
> The software I am refuring to is stuff like ardour, audacity, jack,
> jamin, hydroigen, Cinelerra.

How serious are you about that? (What's your target audience?)

> I understand that Warty is the first release but would like to get a
> feel for how seriously Ubuntu is going to be supporting this type of
> hight end Desktop use in the future.

The software you mention isn't really desktop software at all - it's software
meant to be used in a "pro-environment" (which probably translates to:
dedicated boxes only doing MM work, _not_ desktop systems).

> 
> Also has anyone built or got a howto for building a low latency kernel
> for Ubuntu.

Hmm, current oppinion is that for such applications the 2.6 branch of
the kernel isn't really a good choice (personal rant: low latency isn't
really a field where linux excels. It's gotten much better but still 
leaves one wanting :-/

To transmogrify an Ubuntu box into a multimedia workstation one would
need to remove a lot of the stuff that makes life for the average user
more convenient ....
If you really need a dedicated MM box (esp. for educational use) you
might be better of using one of the MM distros (Agnula for the Debian
lovers or the rather excellent PlanetCCRMA distro from Fernando at
Stanford - try it, you'll love it ;-)

 HTH Ralf Mattes

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