14 Nov
2005
14 Nov
'05
11:07 a.m.
Hi all,
Many thanks to everybody for the useful thoughts and suggestions.
For hardware I've got a 1-year-old IBM laptop, nothing exotic, at least
everything I need works in Ubuntu. The video card is ATI, it needs
proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration, but I don't think I'll miss 3D
much for recording, so it's not really a problem.
I think I will set up a dual-boot system: I'll keep the Ubuntu system I
now have for work, and add a DeMuDi or Fedora system for recording
purposes. Does anybody have enough experience with the DeMuDi and Fedora
installers to know if this goes seamlessly, or should I expect some grub
fiddling/trips to recovery mode ? Well, never mind, I'll just have to try,
and I'll post if/when I'm stuck :-).
The Live CD is a good idea, I'll start by that. I stumbled on Agnula last
week, when the web site was awfully slow, which was quite frustrating, but
things seem to be better now.
Thanks again for the advice,
Florence
On Friday 11 November 2005 12:54, Sampo Savolainen was
like:
If you are a linux newbie and your primary goal
is to get Linux audio
working smoothly, you should go for Fedore Core 3 + Planet CCRMA
(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/)
A/DeMuDi installs from a single CD in about an hour.
http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/InstallCdRom
It's equally good for newbies, so long as your hardware is supported. It
is
known to be fiddly if your hardware requires closed-source drivers, so
check,
and downright ugly on older laptops. Best test is to download
http://demudi.agnula.org/images/1.2.1/demudi-live_1.2.1_i386.iso
and see if it works. If not Planet CCRMA is a good choice.
I would also not recommend starting with Ubuntu.
--
cheers,
tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim