[LAU] which lau distro is more commandline friendly?

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi all,
At the same time I am  posting here, I am posting on the talk list of  a 
LUG here in the greater Toronto Area.
Two situations  that members have asked about, referenced   are bringing 
up a couple of questions for me.
of the popular   Linux distributions specifically developed for the 
professional audio community,  which is more  likely to allow for command 
line access?
I understand these tend to have programs that more general distributions 
do not include, but I already now I want access to some things shared 
here, like Peter's and Joel's programs.
So can anyone speak to the choices?
My second question is tied to latency.  I believe this issue came up when 
I first asked about outfitting a computer for Linux audio work.
One person here tells me that there here are low latency kernel tools that 
address the problem.  the question is going to be if those tools work with 
older distributions, squeeze for example, because more up to date Kernels 
do not always support hardware synthesizers.  I would not have made my audio 
desires dependent on adaptive technology, buts someone flat out posted a 
question regarding  this for me on list, not privately....as  if they are 
thinking all individuals with even slightly the same label are the same, 
must have inter changable needs, and asking one means such issues  impact 
all.
so, I have a choice.  build Linux audio setup with zero chance to use the 
box directly, seems most likely right now, and does not bother me very 
much since the screen readers are rather dreadful, or build a setup with a 
slight door open on that use the machine directly front.  I already know 
ssh telnet is going to be my 
only option right now for blending speech with using the Linux box in any 
reasonable to my standards way.
I did want to leave a chance for non-software speech however.
Thoughts on my first question?
Kare