[linux-audio-user] The best distro for music creation

[Cesare Marilungo]

Cesare Marilungo wrote:

> Brian Dunn wrote:
>
>> The possibility of using and contributing to studio
>> quality audio software is really what first sparked my
>> interest in linux.  So I installed Mandrake 10.1,
>> because someone gave it to me and it sounded cool. Since then i've 
>> had a lot of fun with it, using their
>> mm kernel and running jack with seq24 and trying to
>> come up with something cool enough to use ardour for,
>> and everything ran relatively reliably.  BUT...  The
>> lan componets of the distro simply don't work, the USB
>> plug and play is more like
>> plug-and-if-i-feel-like-it-play, and the printer
>> suport is also compleatly unreliable.  So, just use
>> mandrake for when i'm feeling musical and reboot to
>> Micro$oft whenever i need to do anything else, right?
>> well, that's getting old.
>> So i took a friends advice and started playing with
>> gentoo.  After all, it's well documented. and it was
>> fun writing all those config files and oh so neat to
>> DIY, but then i tried to install Gnome, and after like
>> a 7 hour compile that i can't yet figure out how to
>> use i'm thinking, what have i gotten myself into...
>>
>> So does anybody out there have the best of all worlds?
>> good free documentation, reliable hardware support,
>> binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config
>> files that don't get re-written by some user friendly
>> script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except
>> for the whole doesn't work thing?
>>
>> If your system works the way you want it too most of
>> the time, i want to hear your opinion.
>>
>> gratefull,
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Just try Slackware. Things will not work out of the box, but you'll 
> learn the basics of gnu/Linux and you'll have a stable and clean 
> system, without the need to compile everything from scratch (as with 
> Gentoo).
> I run Slackware 10.2 with kernel 2.6.13 (compiled by myself with just 
> the stuff I need) and the realtime-lsm module. My pc works the way I 
> want most of the time, more than how it used to be with a closed 
> source commercial operation system.

sorry, operating

>
> I guess there are a lot of better distributions out there. My only 
> advice is to avoid a distro that does everything for you. These are 
> the most difficult to configure and tweak if something doesn't work 
> plug-and-play, and less adherent to standards. And you'll learn nothing.
>
> c.
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