On 01/18/2014 05:15 PM, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:
> On 2014-01-18 05:21, Brendan Jones wrote:
>> I'm starting to think that there is little point having a spin at all.
>> My original idea was that having the spin would encourage more users
>> to use Fedora and as a result create some kind of community (and
>> hopefully attract more upstream developers).
>>
>> This hasn't happened. I'm too busy to blog, promote, berate the
>> goodness of the Jam etc. Maybe someone else is. Maybe we are not
>> promoting ourselves enough? I don't know. Maybe we are being lazy.
I am a Fedora user, and I use Fedora to make music. But for me
personally the Fedora Jam spin is not my choice. On my main computer I
use the standard Fedora desktop distribution with Gnome3, on my EeePC
netbook I use a lightweight LXDE spin. Then on top of these I install
all the music related packages that I need from the official Fedora,
RPMFusion and PlanetCCRMA repositories, including the kernel-rt package.
Why would I use Fedora Jam? I don't even like KDE.
Pretty much the same here - I always just install standard Fedora
desktop "spin" and add XFCE (+ bunch of individual packages on top).
Which is utterly trivial because its just a matter of "yum groupinstall
xfce-desktop". And then on the two computers I use for making music,
hunt down all the individual bits and pieces required.
The good thing is that, from the moment people started to think about
a
special Musicians Spin several interesting packages, requested by
members of this mailinglist, have been added to the official Fedora
repositories.
What I would like to see is that I could do something like:
# sudo yum groupinstall "Fedora Jam"
to install a nice selection of must-have music production software, like
what is now in the Fedora Jam spin, after installing the Fedora version
of my choice.
+100 for that, except perhaps a more descriptive name like
"music-production" or "audio-production" for the group name. It'll
require maintaining two different places (comps + kickstart) instead of
just the spin-kickstart, but it'll make the result of that bit of extra
work far more widely usable. That's how other spins are constructed as
well, AFAIK.
- Panu -