> I tried knoppix only and it's pretty impressive in terms of
> autodetection and autoconfiguration of the hardware it runs on.

That sounds pretty cool. I'd like to eventually be as prepared as possible
for remote computer disasters so I have it to the point where in a worst
case scenarios I can do what I need on someone else's fast enough machine
from a CD. Probably that would require a library of drivers for most common
sound cards and midi cards I might end up needing to use.

> The drawback of running a show off a CD is that it risks to be less
> efficient than off HD.  But I haven't tried knoppix on a really fast
> machine (best was a celeron 800Mhz or somesuch with CD-ROM reader at 48x
> I think) and it was considerably slower off a CD than off HD after
> installation.  Test a lot.

For my system it won't make any difference as everything gets loaded into
ram and fits in 256 megs of ram. The only audio in memory are some one shot
drum samples, everything else is csound instruments and their score tables
so memory use is minimal compared to using a computer to stream recorded
audio off disk or CD. My main reason to prefer CD is that I can mirror the
CD on hard drive and be prepared should either a hard drive or a CD bust
enroute. I can also take a remote CD drive carry on or keep on my person for
that matter. Techs I spoke with about this figured that in a properly shock
mounted rack PC case, you can reliably make everything except the hard drive
very shock proof, as long as open it up and make sure everything is seated
in properly at the other end. Hard drives I have been told are the weakest
link there.

Thanks for all the opinions folks.
Iain

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