minimal distribution - maximum sound??

[Scott Lavender]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Karl Giesing <khzmusik at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  > 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.
>
> If you have truly ancient machines, dyne:bolic is probably your best bet:
> http://dynebolic.org/
>
> <http://dynebolic.org/>Its successor is Puredyne:
> http://puredyne.org/
>
> I was also looking to see if Puppy Linux has some sort of audio "puplet"
> (its name for a distribution, kind of) but I don't think it does.
>
> On the other hand, most Linux systems will run OK on older hardware, but
> they probably won't handle the desktop environment. So, depending on hard
> drive space, you could just get e.g. UbuStu and switch GNOME for  Xfce or
> LXDE.
>
> Another option is to get a "generic" lightweight Ubuntu (Lubuntu, Xubuntu)
> and install the apps/packages as needed. You'll probably need to install the
> realtime kernel, however. (Assuming that's important - you can actually get
> pretty good latency with the generic kernel, at least as good as latency on
> Windows.)
>
> -Karl.
>
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You might also try GNUGuitarINUX - http://gnuguitarinux.sourceforge.net/

Or even SlackerMedia - http://www.slackermedia.info/downloads.html
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