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

2012-07-06 Thread Dave Malham
Thanks to everyone who has already expressed interest! Definitely looking like it may be a go on the project. I'll keep sursound informed as I do preliminary studies this summer. Dave On 05/07/2012 22:25, Gerard Lardner wrote: +1 here too. Gerard Lardner On 05/07/2012 14:41, Hugh

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

2012-07-05 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 06:40 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Fernando Lopez-Lezcanona...@ccrma.stanford.edu a écrit : Yum has gotten much faster recently, but I have no idea how it compares with apt today. IMHO it is as easy to use as apt (ie: it is functionally equivalent), but it may be slow (perhaps to

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

2012-07-05 Thread Dave Malham
It will be balanced - not looking at anything else, especially as all dacs of any quality have balanced outs. My initial thoughts for a a Kickstarter reward structure is to do the usual special for early adopters which would, in this case, be what amounts to a cape (I'm wary of doing an actual

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

2012-07-05 Thread umashankar manthravadi
where do i sign up. have you started a kickstarter page? umashankar i have published my poems. read (or buy) at http://stores.lulu.com/umashankar Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 14:57:07 +0100 From: dave.mal...@york.ac.uk To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux

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

2012-07-05 Thread John Leonard
Dave, You can include me in, as well. John On 5 Jul 2012, at 15:16, Dave Malham wrote: Not yet, I'm just testing the waters, so to speak, at present. I'm hopefully going to be doing some preliminary tests over the summer, but I won't be able to start serious work until late autumn as I

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

2012-07-05 Thread Gerard Lardner
+1 here too. Gerard Lardner On 05/07/2012 14:41, Hugh Pyle wrote: +1. If you design a BeagleBone cape with 16 channels out (balanced or not, I don't really mind), or a dedicated system that includes the CPU, I'll want several :-) On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:16 AM, GP ga...@activatedspace.com

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

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
[mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Augustine Leudar Sent: den 4 juli 2012 13:07 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio? Have you tried upgrading ubuntu to ubuntu studio ? On 4 July 2012 11:41, Dave Malham dave.mal

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

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Bo-Erik Sandholm Sent: den 4 juli 2012 13:34 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio? We should not fight over distributions ... But Avlinux has one advantage

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
dave.mal...@york.ac.uk To: Surround Sound discussion group sursound@music.vt.edu Sent: Wed, July 4, 2012 3:42:11 AM Subject: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio? Hi folks, I'm looking for recommendations on a preferred (small) Linux distro for surround work. To start with, I'd

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.