On 12/4/05, Christoph Eckert <ce(a)christeck.de> wrote:
With all the press about Ubuntu I'd imaginge
it's
worth a look, but I don't know who uses it for audio.
I heard rumors that it's a bit hard to convert it into an audio machine,
but I also heard about people who have been very successful using it
for audio.
I'm actually in the middle of attempting to do this with Ubuntu 5.10,
"breezy badger." So far I've had no problems with finding
applications, but getting a kernel that is suitable for low-latency
operation was a bit of a hassle (I should note here that I have
compiled my own kernel only once, so I have to have baby-steps
instructions). I found this:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/2.6.14_Vanilla
I've followed these instructions, and turned on the preemptable kernel
function in the kernel config, and so far so good. My hardware is
crap, though - I haven't actually tried this on a decent computer yet,
but I'm sure it would work better.
As far as Ubuntu in general is concerned, I love it. I've used
Slackware for a year or two in an attempt to learn as much as I could
about linux, but end the end, I got tired of trying to make everything
work. There is something wonderfully easy about the apt repositories.
I fully recommend it.
Josh