30 Jul
2010
30 Jul
'10
9:45 a.m.
Excerpts from Andrew Bryant's message of 2010-07-30 09:11:38 +0200:
I want to build a system that monitors several audio
signals. It will
need to run:
alsa
jackd
meterbridge (3 stereo pairs)
alsaplayer
silentjack (3 instances)
There will be three soundcards.
Synchronicity and realtime are not important. Long-term stability (i.e.
running 24/7) is.
Silentjack will need to run scripts that send emails in the event of
prog failures
It will need to boot into a script that starts all the above.
It will not need a desktop - a straightforward windowmanager like fvwm
is sufficient.
It would be nice if it ran on elderly hardware - a PIII/733 with 512MB
is available.
I am expecting to modify meterbridge, so the existence of a binary
package is not important for that application. The others, however,
will be standard.
Any thoughts which distribution would be the best starting point?
Andrew.
Any that gives you a minimal system to start with. I guess there are
many choices. The distro I use, Arch Linux, installs no alsa, X or
anything by default, you can add all that later. Meterbridge is
available as a script that builds the package from source [1] (and so is
jmeters, case that helps). Silentjack isn't in any repo, but it's
relatively easy to write a script that builds a package for you.
[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/meterbridge/meterbridge/PKGBUILD
Maybe look at something like gentoo, I guess it starts out minimal as
well. A distro specifically for older hardware might be a good idea too.
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Philipp
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