On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 02:10, LinuxMedia wrote: > > I was a SuSE user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some > > of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8) > > Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of "audio distrobs" like > Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a dedicated > recording environment. But do these run along side an established > distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with them? All current audio oriented distros or package collections are built on top of some preexisting distribution (AFAIK). If you are already a user of a distribution (Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo, etc), and find a matching audio distro, you can just install it on top of what you have (with the caveat that not all versions of all distros will have a matching set of packages). Or if you install from scratch you are not limited to just audio software, you can install whatever you want, it is not necessary to have a "dedicated workstation" at all. -- Fernando
