> Hi everybody, this is the first time I post here. > > I've been using Gentoo Linux (http://www.gentoo.org/) for about four > years on my desktop machine, and looks like it would be very good as a > "music station" too. I've just begun experimenting with it... > Anybody has ever tried Gentoo for multitrack recording and editing? Bye, Yep, things mostly "just work". The default gentoo-sources kernel has given me pretty good performance but I haven't pushed it for extreme low latency yet. (I was using ck-sources for a while and it was good too... i switched only because there was some kernel version i wanted that wasn't available in ck-sources at one point.) So far my gentoo box has given me the least maintenance headaches of any linux distro I've used, but YMMV. Most of the audio apps i want are available in fairly recent versions from the main gentoo portage tree. Occasionally i want more bleeding- edge versions, which gentoo makes VERY easy to do... either i use an "unstable" ebuild by adding a line to /etc/portage/package.keywords as described at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3#doc_chap2 or I install by hand and tell portage about it, see http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=5#doc_chap3 for how to do that. (Features that all the other package management systems really should adopt if they have not yet!) -PW
