On 12/1/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bill Allen wrote: > At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that I've been just > reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been putting > into trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio, set > aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system with > all the real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can get. > Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my > family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do > music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to > make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one. Hear the man. I started writing a similar reply yesterday, but Bill's said it better here. Given the availability of multimedia-optimized distros I just don't see the point of putting myself through what the distro maintainers have already been through and mastered. Maybe it's an age thing, at mine I get someone else to do the heavy lifting. :) Really, I work with Linux audio software to make music. I lost interest in mucking about with kernel configurations long ago. Yes, I'm glad I know how to do some of that stuff by myself, but I no longer consider it a necessary part of the process. I agree with Bill, use 64Studio, PlanetCCRMA, or some other optimized distro and save yourself time and energy.
All right, I'll give it a try, in two weeks. I'll check out both of those, though I am really interested in getting Debian to work for audio, and for the wireless card which is still a problem. For now, everything I need and the programs I'm used to are still working in Windows. It pains me, but I don't have any choice.
