Am 17.12.2010 21:16, schrieb Mike Holstein: > On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:18 PM, kirko birilli<whyshen...@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > >> hi there, >> >> i would like to know if somebody got experience with running audio apps on >> a small as possible distro tailor made for your own machines.i install >> usually the whole lot and then just try to get things done.a friend of mine >> uses his old laptop as kind of tekkno instrument.he got his sounds together >> with pure data and uses the keyboard as kind of piano.he still got windoze >> xp on it and i wonder if that doesn´t eat lots of power he could better use >> for audio tasks. >> so what are you doing to get the maximum out of your machines and is it >> possible just to get a minimal install something like tiny core with 10mb >> and add the rest after?
This might be a good idea but do not be fooled by things visible. It is an illusion to believe, that changing from KDE or GNOME to LXDE or Fluxbox will help a lot. It *can* save RAM but CPU-load and much more important: unwanted interruptions of jack will be reduced greatly by just changing the DE. There are background-things like udev or network-manager, that produce a much bigger burden and they can run also if Fluxbox is up. I dare to say: if you set up your system really carfully (rt-kernel, udev-rules, limits etc) you get better performance with a stripped-down KDE than someone who believes, just installing Lubuntu will do the trick. >> i have got loads of old laptops around and would like to get them >> swinging.any suggestions? >> cheers >> shen >> >> there is a really cool light-weight distro that i think you might want to > look at for learning purposes.. http://dynebolic.org/ ... Dynebolic really made the grade for me on older hardware (running Zynaddsubfx on a PII-Notebook with 128MB RAM...) But it never was a real-world-distro it even lacks a package-management. The smalles audio-distro I ever tested was bardix. It was Gentoo-based and came as a live-image about 100MB. The performance though, was not so much better than pure:dyne and it was grotesqly spartanic. > i dont think you > would want to actually use it right now because the packages are quite out > of date, but it does *fly* on older hardware (and it flies like that from a > live CD too)... in theory* you can just install ubuntu, normal vanilla > ubuntu and take advantage of some meta-packages such as lubuntu-deskop or > xubuntu-desktop and have LXDE or XFCE instead of gnome or KDE running. then, > you could add whatever software from ubuntustudio (meta-packages, or just > what you need). no reason why all of those packages wont run in LXDE and/or > XFCE... OR you could just install xubuntu or lubuntu and use one of those > versions as a 'base'... all the official variants use the same buntu repos > as far as i know. > >> > > -- >> Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list >> Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users >> >> > > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
