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

[John Check]

On Friday 06 August 2004 01:35 pm, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > From what I see on the CCRMA site. looks like they stay as current as
> > possible...I think apt is what they use? Is it relatively free from
> > dependency hell with lots of server repositories?...
> >
> > What about Suse packages?
>
> If you install the pacages that come with SuSE (tons and tons... and
> huge variety), you may never have a problem. Only several times (in 5
> years using SuSE) have I found a program to not install correctly. *All*
> dependencies are met. And it even lists what dependencies are being
> installed *along* with the original program.
>
> ... Oh yea... I forgot... you have to click "accept" to install (hehe).
> Don't forget to click "accept" (hehe)
>
> Most of the (non) audio apps I've been using are out of the box. But
> don't underestimate how much (audio) work you can get done if you have
> other things in place. Audio is my primary activiy, but that spills into
> writing a front end... which spills into needing a good text editor for
> writing the tcl/tk scripts... which spills into creating buttons and
> images for the front end... And all I need to do all of (the above) came
> with SuSE.
>

I was a SuSE user for 3-4 years. It's really very slick but occasionally some 
of the programs are a little stale. (caveat: I haven't used it since v8)

> I'm looking in the directory were I build new programs. They are mostly
> audio apps. But there's a lot of programs that came with SuSE that will
> probly not need to be updated... there's gui "port connectors" like
> kaconnect (for midi connections), QJackConnect (for jack connections)
> and other smaller (but time saving) progams that are ready to go. All
> those are run out of the box. Oh... so does QJackCtrl for easy starting,
> stopping and configuring of jack parimeters.
>

I don't know what version qjackctl SuSE is shipping but the one I'm using has 
patchbays for MIDI and jack ports

> The irony is that when it came time to write a script that extracts
> information from an aconnect command, having kaconnect at my fingertips
> helped familiarize me with how things work with the alsa sequencer
> ports. It didn't make me lazy. It just helped gave me an important
> window to look into to get a grasp on the alsa sequencer ports. Even man
> pages make sence to me (hehe).
>
> I'm not a fanatic about this. I just want you to know one person's
> experience with a certain distrob.
>
> Rocco

Never used it for audio, but it's a very slick desktop.