Brian Dunn wrote: >The possibility of using and contributing to studio >quality audio software is really what first sparked my >interest in linux. So I installed Mandrake 10.1, >because someone gave it to me and it sounded cool. >Since then i've had a lot of fun with it, using their >mm kernel and running jack with seq24 and trying to >come up with something cool enough to use ardour for, >and everything ran relatively reliably. ( ....snip) >So does anybody out there have the best of all worlds? >good free documentation, reliable hardware support, >binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config >files that don't get re-written by some user friendly >script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except >for the whole doesn't work thing? > >If your system works the way you want it too most of >the time, i want to hear your opinion. > >gratefull, >Brian > > >Hi > >I think the choice boils down to two things. You either need to have a distro where all the music software you want is packaged for you (like demudi or PCLinuxOS, or a distro where source packages compile well from source. I choose Slackware because of the latter: because of its 'vanilla' approach most things compile well from source, which for a non-programmer like me who cannot 'fix' things is essential, including re-compiling the kernel. I am very happy with the result. > > Regards Guy -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.11/191 - Release Date: 02/12/2005 ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Model Search 2005 - Find the next catwalk superstars - http://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/model-search/
