I have an old Compaq presario desktop with (I think) a 400 MHz CPU and 512 MB RAM and Rage graphics. It runs quite well with *Knoppix* (better than Puppy).
I agree, you need more 'horsepower' for music studio applications. Nio On 2013-04-04 21:25, Aere Greenway wrote: > On 04/04/2013 12:02 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: >> I'm sure that some one, some where would be happy to receive your old >> machine. The other options to look at would be something like DSL, >> Puppy (if it still going), Xenix etc. >> >> Regards, >> >> Phill. >> > Phill: > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind. > > I think the more minimal Linux distributions would be a problem for me, > where I do MIDI music, and I /do/ need to use Java. > > Fluidsynth (Qsynth) /barely/ ran on that machine anyway. But with a > Soundblaster card, it worked fine. The Soundblaster 'Live!' card in it > is probably more valuable than the machine itself, and I can use the > disk drives. > > The Java Sound Synthesizer also barely ran on it, but interestingly, > only on the Ubuntu-Studio system (which uses the low-latency kernel). > It doesn't seem to work on Lubuntu, which may be a problem with > non-standard installation of PulseAudio (which is required for the Java > Sound Synthesizer). > > Also, for some reason, on Lubuntu, the pulse-audio control (pavucontrol) > reports two internal audio cards (rather than an internal audio card > /and/ the Soundblaster 'Live!' card. I had to use trial-and-error to > determine which was which. That's not something I would want to inflict > on a user. > > -- > Sincerely, > Aere > > > -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
