[LAU] The perfect distro for linux audio...

[Florin Andrei]

All my enthusiasm for "the perfect distro for 
insert-any-narrow-field-here" has vanished long time ago, when I 
realized the huge advantage of using a general purpose distribution 
that's good enough for what you are trying to do, and also has a very 
large user base. Having lots of users means great support, populous and 
active mailing lists and forums, lots of packages already made and ready 
to install, and just tons of know-how floating around on the net.

E.g., at the office we use CentOS. Since it's basically Red Hat 
Enterprise, it benefits from all the user base and all the software and 
all the know-how of the original distro. Great for enterprise stuff.

For personal usage, and also for audio, I think Ubuntu is good enough. 
If you want more specific features, you can always install Ubuntu 
Studio, which will give you special kernels and a bunch of audio apps.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

But before you do that, give plain Ubuntu a try. It may just be good 
enough, and it's more "mainstream" than the Studio version.

*Specialization is basically a liability.* Sooner or later you run into 
problems with any such narrow-focus distro. So just get a widely popular 
distro and work with it. In the long term, you will realize it allows 
you to concentrate more on your work and less on the tool (the distro). 
That's all that matters in the end.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/