[02:22] <macinnisrr> Hi! My name is Dick MacInnis, and I have been working on an Ubuntu based multimedia distro much like ubuntustudio. My distro is called "Dream" and I am trying to keep it as close to stock Ubuntu as possible, while also including the most up to date versions of applications.  I'm wondering about a couple things: 1) are there plans for an rt-pae kernel? 2) has anyone had luck making plymouth work properly with the 2.6
[02:24] <macinnisrr> 4) If I make such a kernel on my own, would you be interested in including it? I am quite good at binary packaging. I can compile/troubleshoot source code easily enough. The problem is I have no experience making source packages (which is why I host my own repo as opposed to using launchpad).
[03:20] <holstein> macinnisrr: hey
[03:20] <holstein> that sounds like an awesome project
[03:20] <holstein> are there links to anything yet?
[03:25] <macinnisrr> actually you can add this line to your apt sources "deb http://www.dickmacinnis.com/dream lucid main universe multiverse non-free". Once you've done that you can download Ardour 2.8.7,  new calf lv2 plugins, autotalent (an autotune-type plugin, ladspa-trigger, matching gtk themes (that go with the custom themes I have installed for Ardour), an rt-pae kernel (although it is based on 2.6.31 so only the text plymouth s
[03:26] <macinnisrr> I'm working on a new kernel as we speak, and should have an iso ready in a few days.
[03:26] <holstein> would you mind to share that over at #opensourcemusicians ?
[03:27] <holstein> the PPA ?
[03:29] <macinnisrr> absolutely, although I don't have it gpg signed yet (so it's not a proper ppa, I'm not sure what else I might need to do to make it so, but I'm working on it). Feel free to send out a link to whoever you want, although keep in mind that I would consider all of my packages beta at least for a couple weeks (most everything has been tested here on six different machines, and the base is Ubuntu, so blame them if major s
[03:31] <holstein> macinnisrr: i'll save that info you just dropped
[03:31] <macinnisrr> I also forgot to mention one of the coolest packages, which is my custom pulseaudio-module-jack package. It's a dropin replacement for the original, but contains a script to easily connect all system audio to jack. Just fire up jack and issue the "pulsejack" command. If you do a fresh install with my custom qjackctl package, this will happen automatically for all users
[03:31] <holstein> im not really 'on the team' so to speak
[03:32] <holstein> im just hanging out, trying to figure out what i can do
[03:32] <macinnisrr> holstien: sweet. The more people who try this out, the more feedback I can get, and the more I can improve it.
[03:32] <holstein> BUT the folks at #opensourcemusicians will test
[03:32] <holstein> and talk it up
[03:32] <macinnisrr> holstein: What are you interested in helping with? Maybe I could use your expertise....
[03:33] <holstein> thats the issue really
[03:33] <holstein> im a musician
[03:33] <holstein> and im very interested in helping
[03:33] <holstein> BUT i have no coding skills
[03:33] <holstein> im not really a newb
[03:33] <holstein> but im still learning
[03:35] <macinnisrr> holstein: I was in the same boat as you, but during Karmic's cycle I got tired of waiting for new Ardour packages so I started compiling. Then I got annoyed compiling for all my machines, so I started packaging. Then I thought, why not make a distro?
[03:35] <macinnisrr> so I started reading...
[03:36] <holstein> awesome
[03:36] <holstein> well, im not quite there yet
[18:31] <scott-work> persia, are you around for a question or two?
[22:05] <scott-work> interesting view on the staid and conventional desktop -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/03/google_acquires_bumptop/
[22:05] <scott-work> wish troy was here to see that