Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 06:40 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano a écrit : Yum has gotten much faster recently, but I have no idea how it compares with apt today. IMHO it is as easy to use as apt (ie: it is functionally equivalent), but it may be slow (perhaps to the point of being unusable

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
Fernando Lopez-Lezcano a écrit : > Yum has gotten much faster recently, but I have no idea how it > compares with apt today. IMHO it is as easy to use as apt (ie: it is > functionally equivalent), but it may be slow (perhaps to the point of > being unusable?) on low end systems. I should give it

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 04:28 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: Here's a few benchmarks to compare YUM with APT: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7382/ BTW, thanks for the link! -- Fernando ___ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/lis

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hi Marc, On 07/04/2012 04:28 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: I know from experience that .deb based distributions are easier to use than .rpm distributions, especially on slow computers (like the XO or the Raspberry Pi). I was merely pointing out that you were comparing apt with rpm, which was not

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
I stopped using RedHat (before Fedora) in favour of Debian, to get out of the RPM "dependency hell". At the time, there was no YUM to resolve the package dependencies, like APT does so well. But I remember my experience with YUM on the XO computer (from the OLPC project); it was was extremely slow.

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 01:44 PM, Marc Lavallée wrote: [MUNCH]... But I much prefer Debian based distributions (like Ubuntu) for their APT packaging system (instead of RPM on Fedora based distributions). Caveat (apt != rpm): underlying package system: .deb packages in Debian, .rpm packages in Fedora dep

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Marc Lavallée
I use the KXStudio distribution based on the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support). Two installation methods are proposed with a live-dvd (easiest) or a small netboot iso (prefered). It's also possible to use the kxstudio packages with a normal Ubuntu (my method). http://kxstudio.sourceforge

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Aaron Heller
I can second the recommendation for Planet CCRMA. I've used it for for audio work for a decade (since Red Hat 7 days) on various mini-ITX based systems and laptops. 'Nando Lopez-Lezcano (the maintainer) and others on the mailing list are helpful and quick to reply. On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:51 A

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:19:05PM +0200, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: > On 07/04/2012 06:51 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote: > >I have almost no experience in this, but it seems like this discussion would > >be > >incomplete without mentioning the Planet CCRMA distribution: > > > >http://ccrma.stanford.edu/

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 07/04/2012 06:51 PM, Eric Benjamin wrote: I have almost no experience in this, but it seems like this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning the Planet CCRMA distribution: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ speak of the devil :) hi nando. nice to see you on sursound!

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On 07/04/2012 03:41 AM, Dave Malham wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for recommendations on a preferred (small) Linux distro for surround work. To start with, I'd like to run on a Asus 35 M1-M Pro motherboard as I have one handy. Unfortunately, my current Ubuntu distro seems to have difficulties pick

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Eric Benjamin
I have almost no experience in this, but it seems like this discussion would be incomplete without mentioning the Planet CCRMA distribution: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/ written with too much blood in my caffeine stream. Eric - Original Message From: Dave Malham

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:41:53AM +0100, Dave Malham wrote: >I'm looking for recommendations on a preferred (small) Linux > distro for surround work. To start with, I'd like to run on a Asus > 35 M1-M Pro motherboard as I have one handy. Unfortunately, my > current Ubuntu distro seems to have

Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio? AVlinux

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
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Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
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Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Augustine Leudar
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Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Bo-Erik Sandholm
Avlinux , not so small but good for Audio http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html i use this one. http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyStudio small good but abit old ( 2011 ) but probably good enough, or http://gorgeaccess.net/fatdaw/ relation to http://puppylinux.org/wikka/fatdog including audacity M

[Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio?

2012-07-04 Thread Dave Malham
Hi folks, I'm looking for recommendations on a preferred (small) Linux distro for surround work. To start with, I'd like to run on a Asus 35 M1-M Pro motherboard as I have one handy. Unfortunately, my current Ubuntu distro seems to have difficulties picking up its built-in 8 channel audio but