Re: [LAU] Suggested distro and processor speed ?

From: Frank Pirrone <frankpirrone@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sun Oct 21 2007 - 00:20:50 EEST

kevin kelley wrote:
> Hello, This is my first post. I work everyday with
> Linux at my job (Slackware). I was wondering what most
> of the people on this list use as their main Distro
> for Linux audio? I plan to use some form of multitrack
> recording software as well as some sampling looping
> software as well.
> I have some older boxes that I was considering using
> does anyone have advice on processor speed and system
> configurations that work well?
> I am also interested in knowing what hardware
> interface work best for Linux audio?
> Sorry for the fragmented post.
>
> Kevin Kelley
> xirin6@email-addr-hidden
>
Kevin,

Saw the other posts and both are good advice. I have Ubuntu Studio
running in a VM under OS X and it's very nice. Two other distros I've
installed recently are the Sabayon (derived from Gentoo) on this Dell
470 Workstation - SMP with two 3.0GHz Xeon processors, dual 10,000RPM
SCSI drives in RAID with Perc/320 busmastering controller. It's
beautiful and screaming fast. Finally, I just installed PCLinuxOS on an
old Medion computer for my lovely and charming neighbor and it's
outstanding - may be the best of the three for the typical user. Prior
to that I had an older Fedora Core with CCRMA.

It's a big wide wonderful world we live in (song lyric) and virtually
all paths lead to glory.

All the best, and have a blast!

Frank
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