Excerpts from Andrew Bryant's message of 2010-07-30 09:11:38 +0200: > I want to build a system that monitors several audio signals. It will > need to run: > > alsa > jackd > meterbridge (3 stereo pairs) > alsaplayer > silentjack (3 instances) > > There will be three soundcards. > > Synchronicity and realtime are not important. Long-term stability (i.e. > running 24/7) is. > > Silentjack will need to run scripts that send emails in the event of > prog failures > > It will need to boot into a script that starts all the above. > It will not need a desktop - a straightforward windowmanager like fvwm > is sufficient. > > It would be nice if it ran on elderly hardware - a PIII/733 with 512MB > is available. > > I am expecting to modify meterbridge, so the existence of a binary > package is not important for that application. The others, however, > will be standard. > > Any thoughts which distribution would be the best starting point? > > Andrew. Any that gives you a minimal system to start with. I guess there are many choices. The distro I use, Arch Linux, installs no alsa, X or anything by default, you can add all that later. Meterbridge is available as a script that builds the package from source [1] (and so is jmeters, case that helps). Silentjack isn't in any repo, but it's relatively easy to write a script that builds a package for you. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/meterbridge/meterbridge/PKGBUILD Maybe look at something like gentoo, I guess it starts out minimal as well. A distro specifically for older hardware might be a good idea too. -- Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
