[linux-audio-dev]converting old pc hardware to a live musicperformance toy

Alfons Adriaensen fons.adriaensen at alcatel.be
Fri Apr 16 08:38:56 UTC 2004


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:19:04AM +0200, Ariel Sommeria wrote:

> One more question that comes up:
> Would someone have a distro to recommend? Compact and already tuned for
> audio/low-latency applications? I've started with SuSE, but I could use
> something more light weight...

The advantage of SuSE is that the default kernel is already well adapted
to audio work. Don't know about the others. IF you do not need the GUI, 
you could probably have quite a 'light' installation. And even with a 
GUI, you could e.g. just install WindowMaker, and forget about KDE and
Gnome.

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FA



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