On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:23:48AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Batz <batzman-lau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > the bits. This thing apparently sports a celeron 200. I can't glean the > > speed from the manual but I gather it's at least 1.2 Ghz. > > VIA h/w from that era is just plain goddam awful. You need it like a > vampire needs pernicious anemia. +1 for William S. Burroughs reference! > > > I'm not sure this would be fast enough for a fully fledged sampler but it > > might make a fairly wicked little synth. > > > > So excuse my ignorance but which would be the best audio distro to use? I > > was about to download slackware13. Slack has been my weapon of choice for > > years but if there's something better I should go with, then I'm all ears. > > slackware doesn't use PAM by default. this makes the task of providing > your user account with access to SCHED_FIFO and memlock priviledges > more complex than it otherwise would be. > > there is no single answer to the "best distro" question. this is > unfortunate, but true. just about any distro will do what you need - > the only real question is how much work you have to put in to make > that happen. > > i would recommend starting by taking a look at AVLinux and 64Studio. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
