[LAU] Graduating from Ubuntu Studio

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:33:31AM +0200, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> 
> > Secondly, what would you guys suggest as a good alternative?
> > 
> > Ive heard good things about Studio64 and Debian... Any advantages
> > with these?
> > 
> > Ill be installing it on a AMD64 equipped laptop. I want the focus to
> > be on realtime stuff but I might run a few WINE apps and maybe VSTs.
> > 

If you are comfortable with your linux audio distro, you're done. Just customize that one. With Debian-derivatives, it's as easy as "sudo apt-get install" and "sudo apt-get -f remove". It's probably just as easy to customize other ones too.

I use Debian because I'm a Debian guy, and I'm old and crabby and stuck in my ways. That's the only reason, really. I prefer the Debian way to the RedHat way of doing things, or the Gentoo way, but they are fine and just as good for audio.

I hate bloat, so I dispense with all that Gnome or KDE crap, and I use ion3 as a window manager. I'd do that no matter what distro I was using.

I'm sure you could strip down Ubuntu Studio to fit on a flash drive, if you wanted.

-ken