30 Jul
2010
30 Jul
'10
2:40 p.m.
Hi Andrew,
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Andrew Bryant wrote:
It will need to boot into a script that starts all the
above.
I recommend doing this as a startup script and having it run
as a daemon.[1]
It would be nice if it ran on elderly hardware - a
PIII/733 with 512MB is
available.
FWIW, I have a "main recording system" that is PIII/500 with
512 MB, running blackbox for the WM. :-) So, there
should be no problem with this hardware.
I am expecting to modify meterbridge, so the existence
of a binary package is
not important for that application. The others, however, will be standard.
Any thoughts which distribution would be the best starting point?
Whichever one you're comfortable with. Any linux should be
able to fit this bill. I think it's easy to admin a
headless Debian system from the command line -- but I'm also
a command line junkie.
Several of the packages you listed aren't well-adopted. If
I were you, I would just compile them myself. Sometimes,
even if a binary package is avail. it will be out of date.
Most of those packages will also compile in about 5 minutes
or less.
-gabriel
[1]
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-write-sys-v-init-script-to-start-stop-s…