Thanks, Alex. I'm off on slightly different tack here. I do have a laptop that runs Linux, but I need to build a desktop system and need recommendations on a good motherboard and CPU combination for it.
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 19:13 +0000, alexander dahlberg wrote: > Hi lindsay. > > I have been using ubuntu studio dist for about a year now an when i > have time i will write down how i set it up on my old laptop for > recording in our rehersal room. I can do recording with my laptop, no problem. I need to build a multi-purpose desktop system which will take my M-Audio card, a 3ware RAID card and other hardware which I need for all the various things I intend to use it for. > The awesome thing about linux systems is they dont need the most > modern hardware to run smoothly. Im using a 5 year old zepto laptop > with 70Gb of sata hdd.2Gb of ram and the built in intel HDA chip with > one port in and one out. In fact, having built a number of Linux systems, I can testify that you don't want to run it on bleeding edge hardware. Many makers of hardware have proprietary APIs for their stuff, and it often takes Linux developers a while to document them and write drivers and programs to work with them. I have many times had to disable NICs, RAID controllers or integrated sound cards on state-of-the-art MBs because they weren't yet supported in Linux. > For office app i use google docs and thats where i share my ogg's > aswell with the rest of the band. I'm way beyond you, buddy. I need to support diagrams (dia), OpenOffice for PDFs, ODFs, DOCs, spreadsheets and the like, evolution for email and more. These are basic requirements. Google docs won't cut it :-) The box will be running ardour2, jackd, audacity, and several other linux studio apps., but will need to do a variety of other jobs as well. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We have met the enemy, and it is us." FMP Computer Services | 512-259-1190 | -- Pogo http://www.fmp.com | -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
