[LAU] which lau distro is more commandline friendly?

Hi all, At the same time I am posting here, I am posting on the talk list of a LUG here in the greater Toronto Area. Two situations that members have asked about, referenced are bringing up a couple of questions for me. of the popular Linux distributions specifically developed for the professional audio community, which is more likely to allow for command line access? I understand these tend to have programs that more general distributions do not include, but I already now I want access to some things shared here, like Peter's and Joel's programs. So can anyone speak to the choices? My second question is tied to latency. I believe this issue came up when I first asked about outfitting a computer for Linux audio work. One person here tells me that there here are low latency kernel tools that address the problem. the question is going to be if those tools work with older distributions, squeeze for example, because more up to date Kernels do not always support hardware synthesizers. I would not have made my audio desires dependent on adaptive technology, buts someone flat out posted a question regarding this for me on list, not privately....as if they are thinking all individuals with even slightly the same label are the same, must have inter changable needs, and asking one means such issues impact all. so, I have a choice. build Linux audio setup with zero chance to use the box directly, seems most likely right now, and does not bother me very much since the screen readers are rather dreadful, or build a setup with a slight door open on that use the machine directly front. I already know ssh telnet is going to be my only option right now for blending speech with using the Linux box in any reasonable to my standards way. I did want to leave a chance for non-software speech however. Thoughts on my first question? Kare