[linux-audio-user] Easy question about a single app workstation

[matthew yee-king]

> > This is my first post on this list, so here goes!......
> > 
> > I've had ardour running on my system for a while now and I really
> > like it.  I've now got hold of a second PC which I am gonna dedicate
> > to running only ardour (on a debian system).  Now once I have all
> > set up and working well, how would I go about booting directly into
> > ardour?  Ie no logins, no fancy window manager just switch on the pc
> > and it boot into it (and mount some drives on a network).  
> 

hello

<just a thought>
are you talking about mounting a network drive to use for your audio
data? i seem to remember some discussion on this list a while back about
the fact that you really need a local hard disk to run multitrack audio
data from. unless you have a fat raid drive and gigabit ethernet or
something. (even then nfs isn't really up to it??)
</just a thought>

you can automatically mount network drives by putting the appropriate
lines in /etc/fstab

as for window managers, i find windowmaker is pretty light weight

as for automatic login, like Frank said, using gdm/ kdm you can
automatically login a user. 

as for automatically starting ardour, you can do this by putting the
commands you issue to run ardour into your ~/.xinitrc script.

i like the idea of having a dedicated machine for multitrack audio
BTW... its a bit like a poor mans radar :)

http://www.otari.com/products/RADARII/


- matthew