[linux-audio-user] Re: FC2->Fc3->Fc4->Fc5->FC6->FC*: it's crazy! - Linux-audio-user

17 Nov 2006

Paul Winkler:
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 On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:19:12AM -0800, Brad Fuller wrote:
  Thanks to everyone for their views on distros.
But, don't let my
 thanking stop you, it's a good thread. Learning issues of other distros
 is helpful for me and I hope others.

 What I think I'll do is grab a completely clean HD and install Gentoo
 when I have a free day. I might be coming back to the Gentoo experts
 begging for help when I get lost! 
 Another thing if you want to try a lot of distros, investigate the free
 VMWare products.  It makes it trivial to bounce back and forth and try
 crazy experiments without ruining your existing system.

 Problem: I doubt you can use pro/semipro audio hardware at low
 latencies under VMWare, but I haven't tried that.

By using Torbhen's netjack driver, I guess it should be possible to 
send audio back and forth between the vmware side and the host side in a 
synchronized way. It might work very well.

(I tried running jackdmp in windows under vmware, and that worked very
well. Unfortunately, I didn't have the tools to compile netjack under 
windows... (someone should make a package of netjack for windows :-) ))