Re: [LAU] which lau distro is more commandline friendly?

Are you using avlinux, or the other professional audio Linux distribution?
This is not about commands, but about which of these professional
packages
will produce a command line structure with greatest ease.
Once installed that is. I have no Linux box or no functional one at all as
of yet.

Kare

On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Len Ovens wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> At the same time I am posting here, I am posting on the talk list of a
>> LUG here in the greater Toronto Area.
>> Two situations that members have asked about, referenced are bringing
>> up a couple of questions for me.
>> of the popular Linux distributions specifically developed for the
>> professional audio community, which is more likely to allow for command
>> line access?
>
> From the login window control alt F1 to F6 will bring up a terminal screen.
> All will also have the Xterm or something like it often with a keyboard
> shortcut to make it open. Rather than using mutiple VTs, I would suggest
> using dbus_launch to start a text based session manager such as screen and
> use that to switch from one terminal to another. That way jackdbus enabled
> commands can connect from one terminal to the next. I use screen for my login
> to my server where I can switch between this mail client (alpine) and irssi
> for IRC as well as a terminal for server maintenance (from within my LAN).
>
>> My second question is tied to latency. I believe this issue came up when
>> I first asked about outfitting a computer for Linux audio work.
>> One person here tells me that there here are low latency kernel tools that
>> address the problem. the question is going to be if those tools work with
>> older distributions, squeeze for example, because more up to date Kernels
>> do not always support hardware synthesizers.
>
> Any kernel 2.6 and up can be made RT, from the early 3.* kernels there have
> been "lowlatency" versions that can work very well with no patching.
>
>> so, I have a choice. build Linux audio setup with zero chance to use the
>> box directly, seems most likely right now, and does not bother me very
>> much since the screen readers are rather dreadful, or build a setup with a
>> slight door open on that use the machine directly front. I already know
>> ssh telnet is
>
> It is fully possible to start a session and using CTL/ALT/F1 get a terminal
> and either just log in or ssh user@email-addr-hidden from the same machine. So far
> nobody has dropped VTs that I know of.
>
>
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