Excerpts from Gabriel M. Beddingfield's message of 2010-07-30 14:40:04 +0200: > > Hi Andrew, > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Andrew Bryant wrote: > > > It will need to boot into a script that starts all the above. > > I recommend doing this as a startup script and having it run > as a daemon.[1] Doesn't this imply running jack as root or in promiscuous mode? That sounds like a bad idea to me. It's probably as easy to auto-login a user and script startup of everything from there, xinitrc or whatever, there are many choices. > > It would be nice if it ran on elderly hardware - a PIII/733 with 512MB is > > available. > > FWIW, I have a "main recording system" that is PIII/500 with > 512 MB, running blackbox for the WM. :-) So, there > should be no problem with this hardware. > > > 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? > > Whichever one you're comfortable with. Any linux should be > able to fit this bill. I think it's easy to admin a > headless Debian system from the command line -- but I'm also > a command line junkie. > > Several of the packages you listed aren't well-adopted. If > I were you, I would just compile them myself. Sometimes, > even if a binary package is avail. it will be out of date. > Most of those packages will also compile in about 5 minutes > or less. > > -gabriel > > [1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-write-sys-v-init-script-to-start-stop-service.html -- 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
