Re: how to update Rosegarden

> Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:07 -1000
> From: david <gnome@...>
>
> I didn't try downloading 3.0, but did download 2.1. It
> burned and booted
> just fine, but partway through the install process it
> reported that
> files on the DVD didn't match files that it had copied to
> disk.

  <snipped>

Sometimes I get similar problem downloading Linux bootable liveCD image.  Some data portions got mangled.  See if they have an rsync server for it.  Rsync has options to download just the "mangled portion" instead of having to re-download the whole ISO image.

Lack of rsync, I suppose you can try running md5sum on the ISO image and compare with the posted MD5 signature of the ISO image that most distro post along with the ISO image.

If you still want an audio/music oriented liveCD, you may want to try Musix or PureDyne besides 64 Studio, I believe all 3 are Debian compatible.

Once you know how things work under your Linux distro, you can pretty much make it work with another distro.  It helps if your distro is based on a major, commonly use distro like Debian, Fedora Core, Slackware...

If you are comfortable with Debian I have some in mind to recommend (or you can choose other distros).  You may want to consider a distro that has a kernel compiled with "high resolution timer".  Otherwise you may have to compile your own kernel, because the kernel has to be compatible with how your distro boots up (have appropriate modules, ramdisk... available and boot scripts can find those).

Sidux is a liveCD distro that is not audio/music oriented, but it has "high resolution timer" kernel by default.  It does have rsync server for downloading.  It is fully Debian compatible (can use Debian repositories).  It is based on Debian Unstable (Sid), so it does have generally the newest apps available in Debian.  Sidux currently has 4 releases scheduled each year, one per calendar quarter.  So the latest Sidux liveCD is fairly recent.

Knoppix was my first intro to liveCD.  Then, I learned all I could from a Musix liveCD a while back, about how Musix setup music apps but I didn't like a few things of Musix at that time.  So I search around for a different distro that I can sort of understand and get music apps going.  That lead me to a few liveCD distros, then to a predecessor of Sidux, until the team split up and Sidux was born.  All these distros are liveCD and are Debian compatible.  LiveCD helps if I messed up, booting from a liveCD helps with fixing problem, or faily quick re-install.  Since I'm familiar with Debian, it is counter productive to try to spend to much time to learn a different distro.

Rosegarden is fairly up to date on Debian Unstable.  Although I don't update Rosegarden specificly, a new Sidux release install gets me to the latest apps that Sidux, and Debian Unstable has available.  That combination has been fairly stable for my use.

Wish you well in your search for a Linux distro that may be comfortable for you.

Jimmy



     

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