[LAU] which lau distro is more commandline friendly?

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Mon Dec 21 00:29:39 UTC 2015


Are you using avlinux, or the other professional audio Linux distribution?
This is not about commands, but  about which of  these professional 
packages 
will produce  a command line structure with greatest ease.
Once installed that is. I have no Linux box or no functional one at all as 
of yet.

Kare


On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Len Ovens wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>>  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?
>
> From the login window control alt F1 to F6 will bring up a terminal screen. 
> All will also have the Xterm or something like it often with a keyboard 
> shortcut to make it open. Rather than using mutiple VTs, I would suggest 
> using dbus_launch to start a text based session manager such as screen and 
> use that to switch from one terminal to another. That way jackdbus enabled 
> commands can connect from one terminal to the next. I use screen for my login 
> to my server where I can switch between this mail client (alpine) and irssi 
> for IRC as well as a terminal for server maintenance (from within my LAN).
>
>>  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.
>
> Any kernel 2.6 and up can be made RT, from the early 3.* kernels there have 
> been "lowlatency" versions that can work very well with no patching.
>
>>  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
>
> It is fully possible to start a session and using CTL/ALT/F1 get a terminal 
> and either just log in or ssh user at localhost from the same machine. So far 
> nobody has dropped VTs that I know of.
>
>
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