On 11/11/05, Florence Berbain <fberbain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > > > >I'd recommend anything else than ubuntu! As an ardour dev, I've tried > >helping people fix their ubuntu systems to get ardour (and other > >application) working smoothly. They've ran into strange problems etc. which > >newbies can't handle by themselves. > > > >If you are a linux newbie and your primary goal is to get Linux audio > >working smoothly, you should go for Fedore Core 3 + Planet CCRMA > >(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) > > > > What about DeMuDi? Would that be a good choice? (I'm not a linux newbie, > but I'm a sound newbie). > > Florence > It seems to be a religious issue. Folks with Redhat background like the Planet. Folks with Debian background seem to like DeMuDi. I used the Planet for a long time and it was a great, great set of tools. Easy to use and very good results. I now mostly use Gentoo. I would not *necessarily* recommend Gentoo for a new Linux user, other than to say that once he/she got it up and running they would be a much more experienced Linux user. ;-) Cheers, Mark
