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- > Current KXStudio status
- On 2019-08-20 by falkTX
+ > The KXStudio are (slowly) coming back
+ On 2019-09-23 by falkTX
- 2014 was 5 years ago.
- 5 year LTS for official support from Canonical.
+ Greetings from Portugal.
+ After some time setting up in a new country, thinking and planning, I (falkTX) decided a few things in regards to the KXStudio project.
- There are no new ISO images being prepared right now.
- The repositories still keep working fine, though gcc5 now could be made mandatory.
- There will be no more uploads for KXStudio repos on the non-gcc5 repo variant.
+ First of all, if you have not noticed, the KXStudio ISO images were taken down.
+ They were using Ubuntu 14.04 as base, that while still works in many cases, starts to show its age.
+ The fact that I can no longer run it myself (due to a new GPU that is unsupported in its older OS stack) forced me to finally move to something new.
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+ Wherever new ISOs will come back again is undecided at this point.
+ They are not a priority at all right now, so if I get to make them again it is not going to be this year or the beginning of the next.
+ I still like KDE/Plasma the best in terms of desktop experience, so that would remain.
+ Plasma and KDE ecosystem is changing too fast, it does not make it easy for what I want in KXStudio.
+ Perhaps when Qt6 is out, KDE/Plasma5 will slow down a bit, we'll see...
- Currently in plans where to move forward, nothing decided yet, focus is on software rather than packages.
- Expect usual releases.
- jack2 coming next, and dpf stuff follows.
+ Anyway, the bigger news is that the KXStudio repositories are coming back!
+ (for those that do not know, KXStudio has repositories that sit on top of any Debian or Ubuntu system and provides updates and new packages related to audio/music production)
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+ To be honest, they are already back right now :), but not in a state that matches what they used to be before.
+ I am in the process of bringing over all the relevant packages slowly. A few packages per day so in a few weeks we should be good again. :)
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+ Anyway, a new repository setup was really needed.
+ Previously, the repositories were mixing packages built in 3 different Ubuntu versions and there was a separate gcc5 variant of the repos with a few packages that use the new libstc++ ABI introduced in gcc5.1.
+ This was a pain to manage, so better to rethink it.
+ I kept things somewhat updated over the years, and did not change/break the repositories in a meaningful way because 14.04 was still supported and what I used daily anyway.
+ Now that enough time has passed and 14.04 is officially EOL, perfect chance to rework the repositories for the future!
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+ Here is the current situation: +
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+ Speaking of updates, the website needs some touches here and there...
+ Already started with a few, like removing the home carousel and all use of JavaScript, plus updating the pages related to the repositories obviously. :)
+ It is a moving target as pretty much all websites, so don't be surprised to see changes, though they won't be that substantial..
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+ That is all for now, thank you.
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+ PS: You might be wondering why I am writing this text in first person, contrary to other past posts.
+ This is mainly because, well, KSXtudio was and still is a one-person project (with the occasional help here and there for small things).
+ I am making an effort to not write "marketing speech"-like anymore, just that.
+This is for protection of those running the KXStudio repositories in rolling-release style distributions.
+An update from the distribution which does not follow KXStudio rules is a potential source of issues (see the points above).
+Better to have something stable that you know won't break during updates.
+(The focus on plugins in the repos means it is much less work to maintain them, and this critical. The KXStudio repos should be up-to-date as much as possible)
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