Hi all, Many thanks to everybody for the useful thoughts and suggestions. For hardware I've got a 1-year-old IBM laptop, nothing exotic, at least everything I need works in Ubuntu. The video card is ATI, it needs proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration, but I don't think I'll miss 3D much for recording, so it's not really a problem. I think I will set up a dual-boot system: I'll keep the Ubuntu system I now have for work, and add a DeMuDi or Fedora system for recording purposes. Does anybody have enough experience with the DeMuDi and Fedora installers to know if this goes seamlessly, or should I expect some grub fiddling/trips to recovery mode ? Well, never mind, I'll just have to try, and I'll post if/when I'm stuck :-). The Live CD is a good idea, I'll start by that. I stumbled on Agnula last week, when the web site was awfully slow, which was quite frustrating, but things seem to be better now. Thanks again for the advice, Florence > On Friday 11 November 2005 12:54, Sampo Savolainen was like: >> 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/) > > A/DeMuDi installs from a single CD in about an hour. > http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/InstallCdRom > It's equally good for newbies, so long as your hardware is supported. It > is > known to be fiddly if your hardware requires closed-source drivers, so > check, > and downright ugly on older laptops. Best test is to download > http://demudi.agnula.org/images/1.2.1/demudi-live_1.2.1_i386.iso > and see if it works. If not Planet CCRMA is a good choice. > > I would also not recommend starting with Ubuntu. > -- > cheers, > > tim hall > http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim >
