[gst-devel] Linux distro preferred for gstreamer?

[Edward Hervey]

Hi,

  Just thought I'd make the following information available. In order
for people to test new (pre-)releases of pitivi on ubuntu, we've set up
a PPA for all GStreamer packages from debian/experimental here:

  https://launchpad.net/~gstreamer-developers

  We try to update it as soon as debian/experimental packages are
updated.

  It's as 'bleeding-edge' as you can get on ubuntu without having to do
any compiling :)

    Edward

On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:17 -0800, Ron McOuat wrote:
> I would like to ask a question about which Linux distro would be best 
> for hosting a gstreamer application bundle I am working on. I hope I am 
> not starting a distro war by asking this question, :-) just looking for 
> some practical advice. I searched for this in the archives and didn't 
> find much. The system I am building is a server in a corporate 
> environment, not exposed to the public internet which is an improved 
> version of systems that already exist but don't use gstreamer.
> 
> Facts as applicable to me:
> 
> 1) I am using very recent gstreamer code (stable + patches), some I did 
> a small amount of work on which is in CVS head but not released yet so I 
> build from source.
> 
> 2) I am using Fedora 10 on my dev machine and no issues there.
> 
> 3) I deploy to Centos 5.2 which is where I start to have problems. 
> Gstreamer won't even configure because flex is too old. I pulled a 
> Fedora 10 build tree over and I could see from trying to run that, even 
> if I solved the flex problem I would have glib version problems which is 
> a major base dependency of the system. This indicates it will require 
> major work to get the latest gstreamer to run. I hear rumors of a 5.3 
> release which will bring in a newer set of versions for dependent 
> libraries which may work but that is future stuff.
> 
> 4) Since a lot of the field machines are running even older (2005) 
> software than Centos 5.2 I am ready to do a mass cold metal install 
> across them in the next few months.
> 
> 5) I have dabbled with Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 and the latest Ubuntu is 
> pretty much on par with Fedora wrt revision levels. If I get everything 
> to run on 8.04 then I have an LTS release for the field which should be 
> good for patches for quite a while. Switching to Ubuntu isn't a big 
> problem for me other than finger memory on how to do admin things. I 
> have used UNIX of one form or another since 1982 but the Redhat 
> derivatives certainly feel more comfortable for me with 10 years of use.
> 
> In conclusion, I find the version gap between bleeding edge and stable 
> is wider for Redhat derived systems vs Ubuntu. This also sometimes leads 
> to driver support issues when new hardware is purchased. I am reluctant 
> to put Fedora into production because of the high level of update load 
> and short patch support lifetime, so at this point I am leaning towards 
> using Ubuntu.
> 
> Any comments or sage advice from gstreamer developers? Just looking for 
> confirmation of my conclusion or did I miss something in my evaluation?
> 
> Thanks for your time, this may seem off topic but my main application 
> dependency is gstreamer.
> 
> Ron
> 
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