Re: [LAU] Simple monitor system: which distro?

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 it will be out of date.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

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