5 Aug
2011
5 Aug
'11
6:51 p.m.
Edward Diehl wrote:
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").
Aptosid has all of that, too, including the 3.0 RT kernel.
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.
Customization of aptosid for music/graphics was very easy for me. Just
installed the basic system, then installed the apps I wanted. Didn't
take much work at all. Particularly vs Gentoo.
Not complaining about AVLinux, but sometimes this kind of thing comes
off as pushy advertising. The most success I've had with dedicated music
distros along the lines of "It just works" is the last Musix 2.0 beta.
I've tried some recommended audio distros here that wouldn't even boot
on my hardware.
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