Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Best distro for Audio??
From: Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano (nando_AT_ccrma.stanford.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 07 2004 - 23:09:49 EEST
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 02:10, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > I was a SuSE user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some
> > of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8)
>
> Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of "audio distrobs" like
> Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a dedicated
> recording environment. But do these run along side an established
> distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with them?
All current audio oriented distros or package collections are built on
top of some preexisting distribution (AFAIK). If you are already a user
of a distribution (Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo, etc), and
find a matching audio distro, you can just install it on top of what you
have (with the caveat that not all versions of all distros will have a
matching set of packages). Or if you install from scratch you are not
limited to just audio software, you can install whatever you want, it is
not necessary to have a "dedicated workstation" at all.
-- Fernando
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