[LAU] Simple monitor system: which distro?

[Philipp Überbacher]

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 it will be out of date.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
-- 
Philipp

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