[LAU] Aptosid & Debian music distributions => AVLinux recommended

There have been several recent posts concerning adapting Aptosid for music production, which did not sound to promising to me. If you want a Debian-based Linux music distro, use AVLinux which runs tons of Linux music apts out of the box, comes with a RT kernel (even 3.0 is available), supports nearly any interface which can be supported in Linux (e.g. firewire devices, using the "new stack"). IMHO is far easier to carve out a 20 GB partition and put AVLinux on it, than to take a "generic" Linux distro and customize for music production. You can still boot into your preferred distro/OS for other tasks, though, you can still install any application you want from Debian repos in AVLinux, so it works fine as a general purpose distro, too.