Change of domain for the AGNULA project [LWN.net]

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 8, 2007 21:41 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
Parent article: Change of domain for the AGNULA project

I don't know how appropriate it is, but it is related.

Obvously Agnula is designed to repackage existing distributions (in this case Debian for Demudi) to make them more suitable for multimedia work.

A sort of commercial flake off this project is something called '64studio' which is a commercial distribution doing the same thing (completely Free software) for Debian Etch.

It retains a high degree of compatability with Debian and I was able to do both upgrade from 64Studio's 1.0 release to current Etch and, on a seperate install, use 64studio's packages without issue on Etch and Sid.

This is very nice, IMO.

I applaud Agnula also.. A great deal of the packages they have created seem to now be a part of Debian Etch and their efforts have substantially enriched Debian as a whole as a multimedia/audio workstation OS.

(now if only Debian could upgrade their PAM to support the rtlimits stuff. (I know that's it's very difficult and unerstand the issues around it and debian (somwhat)))

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Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 9, 2007 8:01 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (1 responses)

Can you clarify what do you mean by "commercial"?

Is 64studio as free as Agnula, but with a company supporting it?

(or does it add non-free packages?)

Change of domain for the AGNULA project

Posted Jan 9, 2007 21:17 UTC (Tue) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Commercial in this case means professional support for it. If you pay for it your paying the developers to work on it and you can get support from them.

So it's like Redhat in that manner, but they do provide no-cost downloads of their binaries.

I don't know how associated this company is with 64studio, but I found this that may be interesting to people.
http://www.lionstracs.com/store/

It's called a 'Mediastation keyboard'. It's a fancy midi controller with embedded PC hardware that runs Linux. I expect that it's something you can use to generate music, use live, use in the studio, and also as a controller for all sorts of different devices.