Re: [linux-audio-user] The best distro for music creation

The possibility of using and contributing to studio quality audio software is really what first sparked my interest in linux. So I installed Mandrake 10.1, because someone gave it to me and it sounded cool. Since then i've had a lot of fun with it, using their mm kernel and running jack with seq24 and trying to come up with something cool enough to use ardour for, and everything ran relatively reliably. ( ....snip) So does anybody out there have the best of all worlds? good free documentation, reliable hardware support, binary packaging, a fast audio kernel, and config files that don't get re-written by some user friendly script somewhere that would be oh so convinient except for the whole doesn't work thing? If your system works the way you want it too most of the time, i want to hear your opinion. gratefull, Brian Hi

I think the choice boils down to two things. You either need to have a distro where all the music software you want is packaged for you (like demudi or PCLinuxOS, or a distro where source packages compile well from source. I choose Slackware because of the latter: because of its 'vanilla' approach most things compile well from source, which for a non-programmer like me who cannot 'fix' things is essential, including re-compiling the kernel. I am very happy with the result.