[linux-audio-user] Unnecessary Services

[tim hall]

Last Thursday 30 December 2004 06:34, Bill & Kath Worsfold "Songs" was like:
> Should I get DeMuDi, or can I make the music applications work with
> Mandrake? Is latency the main issue to watch out for, or are there
> others I'm not aware of?

I'd seriously recommend DeMuDi-1.2.0
http://download.agnula.org/1.2/1.2.0/demudi_1.2.0_i386.iso
Probably the easiest install so long as you know your hardware doesn't need to 
use non-free drivers.

Just for balance I have to say that PlanetCCRMA is also worth looking at.
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
Mandrake also works well with thac's rpms;
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/index10.0.html
http://rpm.nyvalls.se/sound10.0.html
Mandrake doesn't use apt, so it can be slightly more fiddly for Linux newbies 
to install all the music apps. If you already know you prefer Mandrake, then 
stick with it. You should have access to a similar range of software.

It's probably best to get a working system going with most of the available 
Linux Audio packages. If you use one of the music-oriented distros then you 
can let people like Free Ekanayaka, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano, Thac and 
the rest of the LADs who populate these lists worry about things like latency 
issues for you. It's hard to talk about these things in the abstract.

Have Fun.

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk