Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux multimedia distributions

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Linux multimedia distributions
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 23:38:54 EET


> > I am interested in current Linux distributions oriented to multimedia
> > and more specifically audio (professionally or hobbyist oriented).
> >
> > I have located this ones:
> >
> > Demudi - http://www.demudi.org/
> > Planet CCRMA - http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

Another:
  Turn-key Linux Audio at:
  http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/home.html

> > I have heard about AGNULA and Rehmudi (a RedHat based Demudi, which in
> > turn is based in Debian?) but I haven't been successful locating
> > information about them.
>
> AGNULA has two parts, Remudi and Demudi. Remudi uses the rpm-package
> manager, Demudi uses the Debian packages manager dpkg.
>
> Planet CCRMA is a collection of rpm packages for audio software, not a
> distribution (I think).

Yes, technically correct. It is, I would like to think, a little more
than just a package collection (even though that is what I call it
myself :-) A full distribution would have a set of cdroms that install
everything in one go (or selected parts of it). Planet CCRMA's install
starts where the standard RedHat install ends (for 7.2/7.3/8.0). The end
result is exactly the same. I don't know if Demudi has install cdroms,
Rehmudi does not have them at this point.

I would also like to point out that Planet CCRMA is not strictly audio
oriented, it also has packages for doing video work (from the libraries
and packages needed to do i/o to/from ieee1394 camcorders to writing an
svcd of the end result :-) Of course at this point it is audio heavy and
video light...

-- Fernando


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