Re: Linux Distrobution for Audio Question

[Doktor Greg Kucharo <telecaster@mac.com>]

   Try Mandrake Linux. Buy the full 7 CD version. It comes with a decent 
array of audio programs and the ALSA drivers and utilities.

-Greg



On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 07:30 PM, Scott Carr wrote:

> 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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