Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
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2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
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Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Dave Malham wrote: I'm looking for recommendations on a preferred (small) Linux distro for surround work. To start with, I'd like to run on a Asus 35 M1-M Pro motherboard as I have one handy. Unfortunately, my current Ubuntu distro seems to have

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Benjamin
I have almost no experience in this, but it seems like this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning the Planet CCRMA distribution: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ written with too much blood in my caffeine stream. Eric - Original Message From: Dave Malham

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:19:05PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: On 07/04/2012 06:51 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote: I have almost no experience in this, but it seems like this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning the Planet CCRMA distribution:

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Aaron Heller
I can second the recommendation for Planet CCRMA. I've used it for for audio work for a decade (since Red Hat 7 days) on various mini-ITX based systems and laptops. 'Nando Lopez-Lezcano (the maintainer) and others on the mailing list are helpful and quick to reply. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
I use the KXStudio distribution based on the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support). Two installation methods are proposed with a live-dvd (easiest) or a small netboot iso (prefered). It's also possible to use the kxstudio packages with a normal Ubuntu (my method).

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 01:44 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: [MUNCH]... But I much prefer Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu) for their APT packaging system (instead of RPM on Fedora based distributions). Caveat (apt != rpm): underlying package system: .deb packages in Debian, .rpm packages in Fedora

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
I stopped using RedHat (before Fedora) in favour of Debian, to get out of the RPM dependency hell. At the time, there was no YUM to resolve the package dependencies, like APT does so well. But I remember my experience with YUM on the XO computer (from the OLPC project); it was was extremely slow.