minimal distribution - maximum sound??

[Mike Holstein]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:18 PM, kirko birilli <whyshenwhy at 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?
> 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/ ... 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would want to actually use it right now because the packages are quite out
of date, but it does *fly* on older hardware (and it flies like that from a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.

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