[linux-audio-user] Best distro for Audio??

[Tom Burdick]

Russell Hanaghan wrote:

>I need to stretch my wings a little and try something outside of
>Mandrake 10.0...
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>Can I get some basic pros and cons of the different distro's you're
>using? And especially from previous Mandrake users.
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>Been thinking about CCRMA because I'm used to packages but I would build
>more stuff if it wasn't such a struggle every time I do it. Sometimes I
>just need to install stuff and have it work and not spend 20 hours
>sifting through Google hits, how to's, etc. I enjoy the learning and
>Linux; I just don't have a lot of spare time.
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>Thanks
>R~
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I highly recommend slackware, Luke runs www.audioslack.com, and while 
not complete (and I don't use his kernel since I have a smp box) its 
VERY FAST with little effort in setting up. On top of that, there's 
always high quality addon packages from www.linuxpackages.net. On ccrma 
I got xruns with my delta1010 on the 128/2/48khz setting, on slackware, 
0. Notably: I disable any bs server daemons (except ssh) as well as run 
fluxbox instead of one of the larger wm/de's. I never have any problems, 
minus a few things I have to compile and install myself... but thats not 
too hard :-) Thats my recommendation anyways, I've tried most of them... 
debian, ccrma's rh, agnula demudi, etc etc... I just find slackware to 
be clean and easy, very much a choice though :-)

NOTE: Please understand this IS an opinion, but should not be taken as 
flamebait and what not...

Cheers
-Tom