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PostPosted: Tue May 24, 2022 10:19 pm    Post subject: Gentoo Studio/decibel Linux: Gentoo-based pro-audio OS Reply with quote

    Welcome to the FGO thread for Decibel Linux, a Gentoo Linux-based OS for pro-audio applications. Intended users are:


    • Musicians recording their own material
    • Mix engineers
    • Mastering engineers
    • Computer music composers


    And any other users who need an OS for audio applications.

    Please post in this thread if you have any questions, suggestions or need help with anything.

    There are also these venues for interaction and support:

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/decibellinux
    Discord: https://discord.gg/73XV24dNPN
    IRC: #decibellinux on Libera

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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2022 7:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What are the specs on your site? how much space does it take up on the host?
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PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2022 1:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vaako wrote:
What are the specs on your site? how much space does it take up on the host?


Thanks for asking. I'm about to make a follow-up post with good news. :)
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PostPosted: Sat May 28, 2022 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, here's a follow-up:

Writing my post above forced me to really think about things. I realized I didn't really want to let go of having a dedicated server, so I checked out Hetzner's auction, and to my pleasant surprise, the first thing that came up was a perfectly acceptable server for quite a bit less than the current price I'm paying. So I bought it, and when I checked out, the price went down a few more euros. Score!

I've been migrating stuff from my old server to the new one, and when that's done, I will cancel the old one. So Gentoo Studio will continue in its current form.

I set up the new server with an Ubuntu image provided by Hetzner, because it should make server administration a little easier. This means I'm going to need to learn to set up Catalyst on a non-Gentoo OS, but I don't think this will be a real issue. Catalyst is just a script, really.

So, anyway, some good news as this year's summer approaches. :)
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PostPosted: Tue May 31, 2022 9:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gentoostudio.org is now up on the new server. You wouldn't know this from Adam, but thought I'd just put that here.

I'm hoping to set up a schedule for my tech projects and hopefully work on Gentoo Studio more consistently, even if it's once a week.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Greetings :)
Unfortunately, my hard drive crashed with the GentooStudio running. Absolutely, and I don't have a backup of the system. I don't know when I installed it, but it was updated regularly. Now I wanted a new installation and sadly see that there is nothing stage4 on the server that I found on my hard drives unfortunately from 2014. Does anyone have something newer on a stage4 that I can use? I promise I will save the basic system on this regularly as well, not just the data :) I can provide storage for uploading.
(Sorry for the English, google has to be scolded because I don't even know as much as google :))

Thanks so much!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 10:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There isn't a new tarball yet, but I've been building things back up on my new server. It's going to take a little time but it'll get there eventually. :)
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A brief update: I recently rented a new server on Hetzner's auction. They had a change in their pricing and my current server at the time was going to increase in price quite a bit. So now I have a cheaper one, but still basically the same hardware configuration. While I was at it, I decided to go with their Ubuntu server image instead of using Gentoo as my server OS. I wanted something with simpler, quicker and easier management.

Today I set up a chroot on the server for the purpose of running catalyst to build updated tarballs. Next step is to actually set up catalyst.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 11, 2022 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Catalyst up and running, now running through the stage builds.

FYI, I'm looking at making new releases systemd instead of openrc, just to bring it more in line with other Linux distros and make it easier for users more familiar with systemd these days to manage services.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Now at working out the deets for stage4.spec, with package.use, package.accept_keywords and whatever needs cleaning up for the fscript. It looks like that harfbuzz circular dep is FINALLY gone. :D :D :D

UPDATE: Catalyst is now compiling a stage4. Totally expecting to have to tweak the follow-up fsscript a bit, but once that's sorted, I'll be ready to get into a back-and-forth swing between test installs and tweaking the catalyst scripts until I'm ready to put up a fresh tarball for the public, albeit as a manual install while I work on a new installer script.

UPDATE+: Looks like catalyst has made its first successful tarball. So now I need to do two things, which can be done simultaneously: start working on an autobuild script, and test install that tarball in a vm and see what needs to be tweaked.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2022 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Decided to get a little more serious about a script to automate tarball building: https://gentoostudio.org/?p=573
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

V.1 of an automated catalyst build: https://gentoostudio.org/?p=576

Already working on changes, but it works. It produced a stage4, but I haven't tested it yet.

Also, note that Gentoo Studio is switching to systemd - something I never thought I'd say!
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It seems a little hard to believe Gentoostudio.org has existed as a domain for ten years, even though it's kind of existed before that as a guide on using Gentoo for audio.

So anyway, I've had COVID this past week despite my best cares. Wife and I were just about to get our latest booster when it hit us both. We're okay, on the tail end now, was just a bad cold for us. Since I was on my butt for a while, I spent much of that time banging away at Gentoo Studio. I seem to have a stable catalyst routine going. (Thank you, #gentoo-releng!) I bashed out a new installer script - in bash, so pun intended. Whipped up a new desktop background for 2023, just for fun.

All the current files involved in putting a working Gentoo Studio system together are up on the Technical Details page, which was sorely due for an update anyway: https://gentoostudio.org/?page_id=174

Here's the desktop background: https://gentoostudio.org/src/GentooStudio2023.png

Feel free to check any/all of it out, test the installer, use the desktop background, make comments, etc.

Just as a fun thing, the list of apps in Gentoo Studio on the front page is now automatically generated. My "buildall" catalyst script, right at the end, spits out a text file that contains only the contents of stage4/packages from stage4.spec. The web server then reads this file and presents it as an HTML table. So all I have to do is... nothing! to update the app list after adding the package to stage4/packages. :D The descriptions are presented as they are in Portage.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 22, 2023 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An update for January 2023:

Hopefully audio-overlay will see the return of an admin somewhere to grant one or two of us the ability to manage PRs. A bunch of stuff is now outdated and fails with EAPI6. It's a great setup - we just need more than one person who can approve PRs.

In the meantime, I've incorporated most of audio-overlay into gentoostudio, along with some PRs that are waiting for approval, just to keep the Gentoo Studio catalyst build from breaking. I hope to be fleshing out the list of installed packages a bit, as well as figuring out how to set Xfce4 defaults when creating a new user, which has changed since I last successfully did that.

Got an idea? Suggestion? Question? Let me know. If I don't have an answer, I'll try to find one.

Hope everyone is off to a good start in 23. :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is pretty cool... Digit came by on #gentoostudio to say he dropped the tarball into his Bedrock Linux and it worked out. I wish he'd stayed long enough for me to inquire what he mixed it with. But still, very cool. :)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 26, 2023 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

audiodef,

You could try filing a bug for audio-overlay access
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Neddy. I didn't know I could do that. I'll give it a try. :)
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Been working on expanding installed programs pretty consistently lately, and now I'm happy to say that, among other things, Bitwig Studio is now included.

Also thinking of setting up a binhost to guard against compile failures in catalyst. Having to take samplv1 out of stage4 made me think of this.

If you want to contribute by editing existing or adding new ebuilds, come on over to #gentoostudio on Libera. I have stuff on my todo list there, such as setting up continuous integration. Help is always appreciated and credit is always given.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 03, 2023 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you need to do impulse measurements in an acoustic space, I've revived the ebuild for media-sound/aliki in the gentoostudio overlay.

DESCRIPTION="An integrated system for Impulse Response measurements"
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 09, 2023 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If anyone is using the GentooStudio overlay, the URI has changed:

https://github.com/Gentoo-Music-and-Audio-Technology/gentoostudio.git

I've created a new organization and transferred the repo there.

This change will be reflected in future tarball updates.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've set up a Discord server for Gentoo Studio. I'll leave the IRC channel open indefinitely, but Discord has more options. Feel free to stop by.

https://discord.gg/73XV24dNPN
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Put together a script for system updates. Could probably be fleshed out a little more, but it's a start. sys-apps/pkgupdate in the overlay.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 24, 2023 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Happy to say Gentoo Studio now has a working ebuild for BUTT: https://github.com/Gentoo-Music-and-Audio-Technology/gentoostudio/blob/master/media-sound/butt/butt-0.1.37.ebuild

Have not yet tested in my own studio, but will post when I do.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Decided to revive the Mantis install for Gentoo Studio: https://gentoostudio.org/mantis/

If you have any suggestions, feel free to create an account and make them there. Let me know if you have any trouble with it.

EDIT: The gentoostudio.org domain no longer exists, and I'm not currently running Mantis.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2023 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Was looking for something - don't recall what - and learned that Gentoo Studio is a known thing!

https://www.ubuntupit.com/best-gentoo-linux-derivatives/

https://itsfoss.com/gentoo-based-distros/
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