On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 08:42 -0700, Tim Howard wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need some advice (OK, a lot of advice) on what to do with my Linux
installation.
Right now I am running FC3 + PlanetCCRMA, and I'm enjoying it a lot.
I'm using Ardour, Hydrogen, and a few other JACK compliant apps.
However, I have a few reasons for wanting to reinstall and/or upgrade
my distro.
#1 I recently got some new hard drives which I would like to install.
#2 FC5 has just been released, and I'm curious to see what it's like.
#3 I tried to upgrade glibc on my current installation, and I <ahem>
"broke" it. I have pieced it back into a functioning system again,
but I doubt it will ever quite be the same.
My first question is: Do I want to go to FC5? I don't think
PlanetCCRMA has anything for it yet, but I'm thinking of running it
OOTB. Is it usable for some simple use of JACK and friends? I hear
that it wouldn't have low latency. Is this true, and does that affect
me if I'm only recording one or two tracks at a time?
Any help on this would be appreciated!
The kernel that comes with FC5 is not going to give you the best
performance. I'll release stuff in (hopefully) a week. I do have a
kernel and the low level support stuff but there's a Festival happening
here at CCRMA in a few days and I won't have _any_ time till it's over.
Stay tuned to the Planet CCRMA mailing list...
-- Fernando