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

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 02:10, LinuxMedia wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Maybe I'm confused about this. When I think of "audio distrobs" like 
> Planet, I picture wipeing out my hard drive and having just a dedicated 
> recording environment. But do these run along side an established 
> distrob (like debian, redhat...)? Do they coexist with them?

All current audio oriented distros or package collections are built on
top of some preexisting distribution (AFAIK). If you are already a user
of a distribution (Debian, RedHat/Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo, etc), and
find a matching audio distro, you can just install it on top of what you
have (with the caveat that not all versions of all distros will have a
matching set of packages). Or if you install from scratch you are not
limited to just audio software, you can install whatever you want, it is
not necessary to have a "dedicated workstation" at all. 

-- Fernando