Hi Tim, > I understand the logic, pre-DVD machines probably aren't going to be > that great for audio production.
That depends on the context, and in particular whether real-time effects are required (Ardour or JAMin don't make sense otherwise). I have used machines ranging from 233MHz PII to 1GHz Celeron in a primary school, for music education. The 233MHz box ran Seq24 no problem once GNOME was replaced with Fluxbox. The 450MHz PII ran Audacity, Hydrogen, amSynth, ALSAModularSynth and ZynAddSubFX on GNOME - no problem. > The thing is that 64studio also works > well as a Desktop distro for users whose primary interest is listening > to music or watching video and likes to dabble with creative ideas. Yes indeed, although Firefox seems increasingly memory hungry. 1GB RAM isn't enough to prevent swapping to disk any more, which seems a bit ridiculous for browsing the web. I blame Flash; the Adobe plugin seems to be the main culprit. It can cause big CPU spikes too, I've noticed. Cheers! Daniel _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
