[64studio-devel] Many Questions

[Susan Dridi]

Hello All,

First of all, thank you to everyone involved in the development of 64 
Studio! I can't wait to start learning how to use all the audio programs!

I have a few questions though.

1. I can't figure out how to get flash working, which packages to 
install, etc. I've tried Gnash and swf-player, not sure what else. I 
can't even tell that there is flash content on most pages, but YouTube 
keeps sending me to the Adobe site. Trying to install directly from 
Adobe's site: http://tinyurl.com/zgkz2 gives an error, "Your 
architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player 
installer."

2. Do I need to pin anything to use the Debian archives for other 
programs? How about security updates?

3. Do you know about this bug in Firefox/Iceweasel and Thunderbird? 
Cursor artifacts are left all over the place when you use your arrow keys.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/50768

4. Are there any issues with installing Konqueror, Kmail and K3B? I 
tried using SoundJuicer, but got the following error when I tried to 
"extract" a CD to my hard drive: "SoundJuicer could not extract this CD. 
Reason: Could not link pipeline." I have no idea what that means.

5. I wasn't able to install an SMP kernel, even though I have an AMD
Athlon 64x2. I am going to try to install the new kernel in your 1.3 
release.

$ uname -a
Linux 64studio 2.6.17-1-multimedia-amd64-k8 #1 PREEMPT Wed Jul 19
11:28:38 UTC 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux

6. Which is better for audio? ext3 or reiserfs? Also, how much should I 
allow for swap? I have a 100 GB IDE drive and a 300 GB SATA drive, and 2 
GB DDR2 RAM. And when I partition my second hard drive, is there a 
convention about what to call it? I was going to call it /music and 
symlink it under my home directory, but I don't know if there are rules 
about this, since I've never needed more than one hard drive before.

7. Is there a package that utilizes the writemaster capabilities of my
CD/DVD drive? I'm sure that will be prettier than my handwriting!

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! I've been using Debian 
for a few years, but I'm more of a database programmer than a systems 
person. I've been taking bass lessons for the past year, so I'm really 
excited about 64 Studio!

Take care,

-Susan