hello Ralph! in the interest of constructive community support, id like to add that i would *not* install any of the ubuntustudio meta-packages to mint. especially those relating to look and feel.. you can however just install what you want from the mint repos (a lot of which are the ubuntu repos as well)... you can just install JACK, ardour, and whatever else instead of ubuntustudio-audio... one thing that makes ubuntustudio so attractive is this community support for multimedia producers and the metapackages. those metapackages are not going to be tested by mint, nor supported. mint has no multimedia derivative of which i am aware. for mint support, i would go to the IRC support channel #mint or some of the others on the spotchat network and try and find some audio folks... also, lots of mint users are in the #opensourcemusicians channel on the freenode network. i also know that the http://dinisnoise.org/ developer is a mint user. other than that, we use and support ubuntustudio here, and i suppose the spirit in which it seems you are switching to mint could be taken as a bit abrasive. lots of folks are working hard to make ubuntustudio 12.04 a top notch release. the invitation is extended for *everyone* to come and get involved. come on the IRC and test, and share your skills and help us make ubuntustudio 12.04 something that no one will distro-hop away from!
top-posting with much respect and passion... holstein thanks On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:33 AM, Janne Jokitalo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 01:20:52PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 13:51 +0200, Janne Jokitalo wrote: > > > Of course. Kubuntu is, after all, using the official repositories for > the > > > _whole_ of their distribution (of flavor, or derivative etc.), which > Mint does > > > not. > > > > Mint Lisa - KDE 64-bit seems to use the official repositories OOTB. I > > agree that this anyway doesn't mean it's an Ubuntu distro, such as e.g. > > Kubuntu still is or was. > > Oh ok. > > > You'll find exchange of experience e.g. between Suse and Debian users at > > Debian users mailing list, this makes Linux a modern, libre OS. > > IMO it's strange that such an exchange is unwanted for completely > > compatible distros such as Ubuntu and Mint on this list. > > Exchange is one thing, support is different. > > > I'm not believing in conspiracy theories, but a lot of German Ubuntu > > derivatives users at least don't trust Marc Shuttleworth anymore. I'm > > not one of them, but I don't feel good with the separation done by some > > community members. > > This is not about separation and sadbfl. This is about what can the > community > reasonably provide support for. Since this is under the ubuntu.comumbrella, > that's where we have to limit our support for. > > As to why some people don't trust (I can't even understand why they would > have > trust issues, has the guy betrayed them somehow?) the founder of the > project, > that's definitely OT for this list. > > > I wouldn't ask "When I upgraded Suse, Yast gets broken, what can I do?" > at > > this list, but why not asking "When I upgraded Mint, Ardour gets broken, > what > > can I do?" > > It's because we don't know what distro-specific tweaks the Mint devs have > included in their base setup. There could be something there, that breaks > what > we are trying to achieve, and when we give support instructions from our > distribution's point-of-view, the user might not get the problem resolved, > resulting in poor user experience and spreading of misinformation. > > I would assume that Mint community has support forums for their users, > right? > > Remember, this is not about making users' lives miserable. It's about not > confusing other (possible) users by providing them information that is > false. > > > Anyway, I won't discuss this any long, just 2 Cents, Ralf > > Fair enough. I just wanted to try to make you understand the raison d'etre > for > this policy. And while it's not a very strict policy, I would still like to > remind about it every once in a while. I'm sorry if you feel like you were > being > unfairly targetted about it. That's not the case. > > > -- > Jaska > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAk83sbUACgkQxgcH0NnJT+DjrQCffV9ZPQ9P9u7P3jbR/UaTc8Qm > j2MAnj78UKxjM3+RhYt74XbjdckvtnxZ > =D8cx > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > > -- MH mikeholstein.info <http://www.mikeholstein.info/>
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