1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
11:30 a.m.
On 12/1/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips(a)woh.rr.com> wrote:
Bill Allen wrote:
All right, I'll give it a try, in two weeks. I'll check out both of
those, though I am really interested in getting Debian to work for
audio, and for the wireless card which is still a problem. For now,
everything I need and the programs I'm used to are still working in
Windows. It pains me, but I don't have any choice.
At the risk of repeating myself, in the time that
I've been just
reading this thread (not to mention the time that you've been putting
into trying the stuff mentioned) I could have downloaded 64Studio, set
aside a 5-10 GB partition, installed it, and had a working system with
all the real-time patched AMD64 music-enabled system that you can get.
Yes, you've got to dual boot, I do it all the time. Ubuntu is my
family system that we use for work and play, but when I want to do
music I boot into 64Studio. It's simply a lot easier than trying to
make a general purpose distro into a music enabled one.
Hear the man. I started writing a similar reply yesterday, but Bill's
said it better here. Given the availability of multimedia-optimized
distros I just don't see the point of putting myself through what the
distro maintainers have already been through and mastered. Maybe it's an
age thing, at mine I get someone else to do the heavy lifting. :)
Really, I work with Linux audio software to make music. I lost interest
in mucking about with kernel configurations long ago. Yes, I'm glad I
know how to do some of that stuff by myself, but I no longer consider it
a necessary part of the process. I agree with Bill, use 64Studio,
PlanetCCRMA, or some other optimized distro and save yourself time and
energy.