On Sunday 22 August 2004 04:37 pm, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > > Thomas Pickett hat gesagt: // Thomas Pickett wrote: > > thanks for the advice. I don't care too much on which distro is > > easiest to install. I care more about how good it works for music > > production. > > Heresy: They all work the same. There are no differences between Sssh ;) > distributions in how good they are for music production. Need proof? > Ask what everyone is running, and you will find every distro there is > here. > > > If you had the choice which one of the suggestions given would you > > use? > > I'd use what I use, which is Debian, but the reason is not because it > would work better for music or so. The reason is that I am used to it, > that I like the package management, that I like the libre software > approach of Debian and so on. Ease of install is not important to me, > I only did two Debian installs in the last 8 years or so - one on my > main machine, the other one on my laptop. - Oh, and one for a friend's > laptop, so that makes three. > One of the beautiful things about Debian, You only ever have to install it once > Mostly things outside music production influenced my choice of > distribution, and I would recommend to do the same. Music makes enough > trouble, so you should feel comfortable with the system in general. > > > About the firewire stuff. I think it is too bad that linux does not > > support it at this point. There are lots of decent soundcards that are > > firewire based. MOTU 828mkII, Edirol FA-101, Presonus Firepod. The > > only decent pci card I can think of that has multiple ins/outs on it is > > the delta 1010. > > There are many more, a very popular one being the RME card. > > > Firewire gives the posibility to use the soundcard on different > > computers and portability is not a problem. It seems strange that > > the linux community isn't heading in that direction. I understand > > that it takes alot of work but I think that the firewire soundcards > > give alot more options than the pci cards. Any comments? > > I suppose, you already mentioned the reason: It's a lot of work, and > nobody capabale to do it did it yet. I wouldn't compare PCI and > Firewire, though, as those are actually quite different beasts. > > Ciao
