Re: [LAU] Graduating from Ubuntu Studio

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Christian Delahousse schrieb: Not in the sense, you (and many others) think it can. A different distro is just a differnt distro - if it is "user unfriendly" or not doeas not matter. Very "fat" distros like Suse can work just great for audio and very "lean" like Dynebolic can fail you totally and vice versa. It is 3 things that matter: 1.) a state of the art rt-kernel and fitting modules for your hardware 2.) state of the art audio software all based on jack 3.) properly setup and integration of 1.) and 2.) integration also means, that desktop comfort software (like pulseaudio, network-managing applets etc) steps back if audio needs to have its way. Abandon GNOME, KDE you name it - it will not help anyway if networkmanager still runs in background. Simply put: you can install whatever you like and have hundreds of packages in your system you do not really need and still have a good lean audio-session running for software that is good and well configured runs good in any environment and software that you do not start, does not have any influence on this. So much for the theory, in my experience it is like this: Ubuntustudio does work OK on my 2 boxes and the laptop but for real audio-work I use 64Studio. Why? Because 64Studio works snappier and more stable running with KDE then Ubuntustudio with Fluxbox. If I go to the limits like recording 4 new tracks with 96KHz via FireWire in a session with 8 tracks running in Ardour, 64Studio is the only recent distro that does such a job for 6-7 h sessions with musicians without making me look like the idiot-geek sucker, that needs to restart his computer 3 times/h. Suse11 is slightly better then Ubuntustudio but has other flaws and is still not as rock-solid as 64Studio. JAD1.0 is silghtly better than 64studio in terms of performance but has no 64bit-flavour (yes, it matters.) and is not the same as stable. So in short: try to eliminate services in Ubuntustudio and look, if it works for you or try 64Studio. If you want to run WINE-Stuff, I doubt, that you will get any kind of measurable advantage by switching to a "leaner" environment. WINE ist *definately NOT* build to be lean. So if you run a session with Ardour having a dozen of LADSPA-plugins running and add just one VST you can easily have your systemload doubled. It is slightely different with JOST however... good luck ;-) HZN