2012/1/9 Moshe Werner <moshwe@gmail.com>
Hi Raffaele,

thanks for the reply! 

My needs would be:
Mainly tracking (by now up to 8 channels at given time).
Mixing and monitoring - Yep
Realtime fx - also yes.

Tried AVlinux and found it to be pretty cool, but its 32 bit and till now I'm used to 64 bit and wouldlike to keep using the more advanced PC technology. (Finally when Protools 11 takes the leap into 64bit technology it would be sad to see my Linux system going backwards).

in this case debian AMD64 would be your choice. I am actually running it on a dell workstation with Intel Xeon CPU @ 2.50GHz
64bit releases are on debian official branch since debian etch (http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/)

As someone pointed you don't need an RT kernel if DON'Tt want to record 16tr+monitoring+fx, 48Khz and 2.67ms latency :-)

Moreover, bear in mind that a lightweight desktop environment is what you want for your system unless you have tons of ram and cpu cycles to spend :-)

So, whatever your choice will be, you should avoid fatter ones such kde or gnome and try instead awesome, fluxbox, xfce.

regards
-r

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