I've been lurking for years on your group, watching the exciting evolution
of Linux sound and hoping one day to be able to pitch in.
I'm about to load (or have someone load) a Unix-like OS on a partition of
my Thinkpad T23 laptop, with one aim being home recording using the tools
being lovingly discussed and developed here and leading to CDs featuring my
harmonica playing. I hope whatever OS I load will be able to drive the
following hardware:
- CDRW (Matshita UJDA310)
- notebook hard drive (48G 5400 rpm IC25T048ATDA05-0)
- IBM docking port (or the USB port?) to allow sound card and
2nd hard-drive hookup
- professional sound card (hopefully my Midiman Dman)
- the internal network interface
I surmise from a recent discussion that FreeBSD and other non-Linux OS's
would be unwise, so Linux it will be.
My questions: Which implementation/packaging of Linux do most of you
use? Where do I get it? Do you expect I'll encounter major roadblocks to
recording on this PC? Is my dream realizable yet?
Sincerely,
John Thaden
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In a discussion called "Still I cannot understand why", Ivica Bukvic wrote
>I have to completely disagree with your statement here. I could not care
>less for BSD, Solaris or any other flavor or *nix. I use Linux and that
>is all I care for.
