On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:48:33 -0500 (EST), Karen Lewellen wrote: >distributions specifically written for audio professionals Software for Linux distributions isn't individually written for a distro, excepted of a few tools, such as package management tools. Distros are collections of software written to run together with a Linux kernel, but this software could be used by every distro. Audio distros usually are derivatives of a major non-audio distro. The difference between distros is the policy regarding - licenses - the package management - the way software is upgraded or not upgraded As already pointed out by Len, command line isn't an issue for any distro, the default login shell for most, if not all distros most likely is bash. The sh link for some older distros might default to dash, but usually defaults to bash either. Other shells are very unusual for Linux. For command line work you should be able to be aware of bash and it's safe to know the differences to dash, but that isn't that hard, other shells are unimportant. This is the same for all distros. Regarding command line the differences between distros are mostly package management related tools. There are few minor differences that are unimportant, e.g. the source for /bin/su has impact to the way variables get reset. This not really has much impact to the command line usage. IOW you need to take a look at the policies of the distros. If you want to compile software from upstream, what is required to do this? Latest versions of libraries or are older versions ok? Is the policy of the distro to provide upgrades close to upstream, or is the policy to provide a steady work-flow by only providing security related upgrades? Etc. ... I already gave a few hints by my previous reply. >Why did this discussion shift to my hardware synthesizer F. Silvain likely mentions BRLTTY, because you mentioned that you need old kernels to use your synth. -- http://www.grundgesetz-gratis.de/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
