[LAU] Sampler project. First volley of questions

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:23:48AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Batz <batzman-lau at all-electric.com> wrote:
> 
> > the bits. This thing apparently sports a celeron 200. I can't glean the
> > speed from the manual but I gather it's at least 1.2 Ghz.
> 
> VIA h/w from that era is just plain goddam awful. You need it like a
> vampire needs pernicious anemia.

+1 for William S. Burroughs reference!

> 
> > I'm not sure this would be fast enough for a fully fledged sampler but it
> > might make a fairly wicked little synth.
> >
> > So excuse my ignorance but which would be the best audio distro to use? I
> > was about to download slackware13. Slack has been my weapon of choice for
> > years but if there's something better I should go with, then I'm all ears.
> 
> slackware doesn't use PAM by default. this makes the task of providing
> your user account with access to SCHED_FIFO and memlock priviledges
> more complex than it otherwise would be.
> 
> there is no single answer to the "best distro" question. this is
> unfortunate, but true. just about any distro will do what you need -
> the only real question is how much work you have to put in to make
> that happen.
> 
> i would recommend starting by taking a look at AVLinux and 64Studio.