Yes, it's a great audio distribution and at the same time so good at other stuff that I'm tempted to start putting in my non-audio systems too. To give you an idea where I am coming from I currently run 6 machines in my house, four on linux, 2 on windows. Each member of my immediate family has their own machine + a dedicated file and print server. I used to be very big into Mandrake, for several years, and have messed with just about everything else as well. Debian became my favorite over a year ago when the first easy-to-install distros (Knoppix, Libranet, etc.) started showing up. My wife and daughter currently run Ubuntu, our server runs Mepis and I run Demudi. Once you learn one debian you pretty much know them all and on my quest for audio production without a bunch of flaming hoops to jump through (compiling, quirky driver configuration, etc.) Demudi has easily proven it's worth. There is a live version and an installer version and both are excellent in their own way. I recommend trying the live version first to at least check hardware compatibility and then, if you like it, download the installable version. You also get the benefit of the [a-users] mailing list which I have found to be of great value. Best of luck and let us know what you end up with! Jon Hoskins --- sergio <sergio(a)village-buzz.com> wrote: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In a world without walls who needs gates or windows? --unknown __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 09:22:17AM -0000, Dubphil wrote: if the user is new to linux , i'd definitely be suggesting CCRMA or D3MuDi ..no sense in them getting turned away by "you mean i need gtk+-2.8.1-mm-dev? where are my kernel headers? what are kernel headers anyways?". then once they get sick of 'you mean i have to add the ___ reposity to get a version of ___ that isnt ancient? ___ repository is installed a different version of libc and insert_dep_here, is that why half my apps are now randomly segfaulting? how do i know which is which?? you mean im still have to compile all this new stuff from source anwyays and then trick the distro into thinking its installed even tho the distro was supposed..." then they can graduate to gentoo. and stare at their screen while lines and lines of CFLAGS scroll by..

Which kernel did you choose (among those available in the portage tree) and how did you customise it? Thx, Lorenzo Alle 11:22, venerdì 23 settembre 2005, Dubphil ha scritto:

Thank you very much. These are the very first times I try to use Linux for audio recording, and the standard gentoo kernel still works fine for me; I'll surely try to follow your advices when I have a little bit more experience with it. Thanks again. Lorenzo Alle 21:40, venerdì 23 settembre 2005, Dubphil ha scritto: