[LAU] The age old question... open source vs the other...

[Hartmut Noack]

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Russell Hanaghan schrieb:
> Hi folks,

> I am running a Delta 1010LT, which is hardly a pro 
> card, yet capable of reasonable sound and flexibility. The box is an AMD 
> x64 3ghz dual core, ASUS mobo with 2g RAM and Nvidia graphics card. 

Absolutely sufficient I'd say I run 50+ tracks projects on half as that.
> If you have a recommendation, tell me what 
> distro and version you have Ardour, Jack, etc running on that you can 
> trust your art to! What version of Ardour / JACK is running stable...do

64Studio 2.0 was the most reliable I ever used. Now I run Debian5.0 plus
Dure:Dyne overlay/kernel. It feels the same as reliable but is not that
solid in terms of integration in the DEbian-Repos so I`d recommend to
build Ardour, Calf, Invada and other important stuff on the machine from
source.


>  If you had a single shot at 
> recording an all time super hit piece of ART, would you trust your 
> platform to capture it safely and recreate it cleanly?

Well--- yes...
 in 3 years using a Linux machine as a DAW for approx. 800h I had a
single case of a crash while recording. And no case in witch recorded
material was destroyed by some bogus behaviour of a application.(There
was no material destroyed at all that is...).
It is slightely different when it comes to
editing/arranging/sound-design stuff - big plugins in complex set ups
can have unpredictable effects but crashes in heavy work like this are
seldom still.


best regs

HZN
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