On Nov 20, 2012 1:14 PM, "Paul Davis" <paul@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:50 AM, James Stone <jamesmstone@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Yes. I'm just trying out different things. I had Debian on the desktop computer for a long time (10 yrs without a reinstall!) I have Ubuntu Studio on my work laptop and a minimal ubuntu + LXDE on the netbook.. I thought AVLinux was looking good from pov of Jack performance but I am hitting some problems with the apps installed (optimised for SSE2 when my CPU wont do it, this linuxsampler problem etc..).
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> not having an SSE2 CPU seems like a bad, bad place to start ...

Perhaps.. but I don't see myself upgrading in the near future. After all, it has handled everything I havd thrown at it until now.. and I am not trying to do anything dramatically different or more CPU intense than anything I have done before.

I don't think Athlon XPs are that uncommon amongst Linux users given our fondness for keeping machines running as long as possible!

Do you know if Ubuntu optimises for SSE2 by default? Maybe I will have to start using Gentoo or something...