Re: [Audacity-devel] Stability and Best Linux distro for Audacity?

[Stevethefiddle <ste...@gm...>]

Luigino Bracci wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working in a small radio station with five users working with Audacity
> 1.3.10 in Ubuntu 9.04, but there are some occasional lock-ups in the
> application. Users working with keyboard shortcuts are feeling more
> stability and less hang-ups that users prefering mouse.
> 
> Some lockups are "recoverable"; sometimes, when an user is playing an
> audio
> and then press stop, the interface stops responding, too. The user can
> recover the hang-up pressign the zoom shortcuts (Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+3). But
> other lockups have no solution and the user must kill -9 the application
> and
> try to recover.
> 
> How stable is Audacity in other Linux distributions, and in others OS? Is
> this caused by a bad Linux packaging? Maybe the problem is the hardware
> and
> the sound card (HDA-Intel 82801G)? If I compile Audacity by myself, should
> I
> have less hangups? I'm using the Debian Sid package in Ubuntu 9.04,
> working
> with ALSA.
> 
> Thanks you.
> 
> 

I've been using "self build" from cvs for a while now and stability has been
very much improved. I do quite a bit of testing of the latest versions and
recently I've been finding it quite difficult to produce crashes (even with
serious abuse and trying bizarre things to try and find bugs).

Sorting out the dependencies and building WxWidgets is the hardest part but
after that it's usually very straightforward.

Steve

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