Linux Distrobution for Audio Question

[Scott Carr <scott@tapehissrecordings.com>]

Hi all,

I'm cross-posting this to hopefully get a few replies since I know there
aren't a ton of Linux users on any of these lists. Please feel free to
correct / redirect me if you think I've veered too far OT.

What I've got:

PII 266
ASUS P2B mobo
zip. flop, 20X Acer CD Rom
SB16 MCD/ASP ISA (I hrt this vintage card)
192 PC100 ram
20GB Western Digital Main drive (for OS + APPS)
60GDB IBM Deathstar (For audio storage, probably as one big NTFS
partition - must be able to mount this from Linux)
Netgear Ethernet adaptor
Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 AGP display card

What I'm trying to do:

I have a tiny 500MB Windows 3.11 partition that I need to keep for the
Cakewalk 3.0 old sequences + SB16 win3.11 only software I've got working
very stably, but I'd like to use the rest of this for Linux / BSD / BeOs
partitions.

I know this is a loaded question, but what IS the best Linux distro for
audio (given the above hardware?). I've looked around, but found nothing
catering to setting up a particular Linux distro for Audio + MIDI.
Anybody have any hints / horror stories? I'm not necessarily looking for
the newest and slickest. Stable + vastly configurable = good. I NEED to
have this box networked + talking to a Mac G3 and a PIII as the gateway
for internet connection sharing.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Scott

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