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

[guy]

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.  ( ....snip)
>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
>  
>
>Hi 
>

>I think the choice boils down to two things.  You either need to have a distro where all the music software you want is packaged for you (like demudi or PCLinuxOS, or a distro where source packages compile well from source.  I choose Slackware because of the latter: because of its 'vanilla' approach most things compile well from source, which for a non-programmer like me who cannot 'fix' things is essential, including re-compiling the kernel. I am very happy with the result.
>  
>
Regards
Guy


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