ons 2003-03-19 klockan 11.23 skrev Vincent Touquet: > Hi, Hi there! > > I'm checking out my distro options for a Linux machine I will use to > record music and do MIDI with. > > I'm mostly a Debian adept, so I was > thinking of adding the demudi packages to my sources.list, but they > seem a bit out of date (there is newer stuff in sid than in the demudi > specific repositories ?). > > Planet CCRMA looks very promising, it even includes a low latency > patched kernel :) (anyone having experience with this distro ?). I did actually install Redhat 8.0 and then got the apt-get-RPMS from CCRMA, and then took all the sound- and videoprograms from there, as the instructions said. And it seems to work fairly well. The only thing is that I fried my SBlive with a loos HD-power-cable, so I'm driving at some CS42... stuff. Noisy and so on. But anyway, my conclusion is that it works. And is simple to do. But if you already are a Debian-creature, I think Debian is better than Redhat, both in stability and "cleaness"... > > Gentoo seems nice too, albeit maybe a bit harder to install. > > The most important thing is probably the availability of > music related programs (packages). It seems to be okay at Planet CCRMA :) > > Aside from the distro question, which kernel do you prefer ? > I know I need the low latency patches in here: > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html, but aside > from these patches, what should I definitely include in the > kernel ? I guess the pre-emptible kernel patch too (the planet > CCRMA distro has it). CCRMA has it, yes. And it works. But I don't think it's that much effort to patch the kernel-source yourself, and compile your own kernel. Best Regards, Linus Ericsson
