Here's an article by Kim Casone that might be of some use, though it
uses OS X and not windows:

Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/

Best,
Jake

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Emerson Aagaard
 wrote:
> Hello list,
>
>
> I'm still familiarizing myself with Csound (and loving every moment of it,
> of course), but I've been considering switching my OS (from windows) to one
> of the linux distributions.
>
> I was simply wondering if I could get some feedback on what some of you
> think is the most friends towards computer music/Csound usage.
>
> Yes, I understand that I should experiment myself, and read around, but all
> of the "research" I've done this far really hasn't made anything stand out.
>
> Sorry for the sort-of-irrelevancy, and thanks in advance for replies.
>
> Emerson.


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I depends on whether you plan to do real-time performance, or mostly
render to soundfile. I know little about real-time.

I do mostly soundfiles. I use Ubuntu (or rather Eeebuntu, which is for
netbooks) simply because it is widely used and convenient. Convenient
in the sense of having a wide variety of software, including music
software, instantly available for installation.

No doubt others know more!

Regards,
Mike

On 10/17/09, Jacob Joaquin  wrote:
> Here's an article by Kim Casone that might be of some use, though it
> uses OS X and not windows:
>
> Linux Music Workflow: Switching from Mac OS X to Ubuntu with Kim Cascone
> http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/
>
> Best,
> Jake
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Emerson Aagaard
>  wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>>
>> I'm still familiarizing myself with Csound (and loving every moment of it,
>> of course), but I've been considering switching my OS (from windows) to
>> one
>> of the linux distributions.
>>
>> I was simply wondering if I could get some feedback on what some of you
>> think is the most friends towards computer music/Csound usage.
>>
>> Yes, I understand that I should experiment myself, and read around, but
>> all
>> of the "research" I've done this far really hasn't made anything stand
>> out.
>>
>> Sorry for the sort-of-irrelevancy, and thanks in advance for replies.
>>
>> Emerson.
>
>
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I would recommend Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio. They are targeted at
multimedia production, and are based on Debian (via Ubuntu). This means
you can use the enormous amount of software packaged for Debian, while
being a bit more user friendly than it.

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 08:15 -0500, Emerson Aagaard wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Michael, and thanks alot for that article,
> Jacob! It's a very helpful anecdote, if not a helpful sort of guide.
> 
> Emerson


-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

I third Ubuntu. Between the distro itself and the community around it,
they've put more effort into easing the learning curve than most other
distributions. I use Debian, from which Ubuntu was once built, and
also recommend it for most users, but in my experience the Debian
community is sometimes not as patient with the bewildered. Either way,
there's not much you can do with one that you can't do with the other.

-Chuckk

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Emerson Aagaard
 wrote:
> Hello list,
>
>
> I'm still familiarizing myself with Csound (and loving every moment of it,
> of course), but I've been considering switching my OS (from windows) to one
> of the linux distributions.
>
> I was simply wondering if I could get some feedback on what some of you
> think is the most friends towards computer music/Csound usage.
>
> Yes, I understand that I should experiment myself, and read around, but all
> of the "research" I've done this far really hasn't made anything stand out.
>
> Sorry for the sort-of-irrelevancy, and thanks in advance for replies.
>
> Emerson.

On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:52 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> I use Debian, from which Ubuntu was once built

And still is. Ubuntu regularly fetches from Debian the latest versions
of several packages.


-- 
Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

I noticed and tried vmware when I was trying to figure out how to use sage
for compistion (doesnt seem to work on vista anyway)...  What version of
linux do I use.... all of them because I have windows (I am using vista)... 
I just downloaded ubantu studio but haven't tried it yet but managed to get
fedora 11 working.   I am glad someone mentioned the eee (linux) someone was
asking for help with one of them.  This might make a good article or blog
entry as far as how to set it up and compile from windows to a unix install.


Emerson Aagaard wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> 
> I'm still familiarizing myself with Csound (and loving every moment of it,
> of course), but I've been considering switching my OS (from windows) to
> one
> of the linux distributions.
> 
> I was simply wondering if I could get some feedback on what some of you
> think is the most friends towards computer music/Csound usage.
> 
> Yes, I understand that I should experiment myself, and read around, but
> all
> of the "research" I've done this far really hasn't made anything stand
> out.
> 
> Sorry for the sort-of-irrelevancy, and thanks in advance for replies.
> 
> Emerson.
> 
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On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 18:52 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> I third Ubuntu. Between the distro itself and the community around it,
> they've put more effort into easing the learning curve than most other
> distributions. I use Debian, from which Ubuntu was once built, and
> also recommend it for most users, but in my experience the Debian
> community is sometimes not as patient with the bewildered. Either way,
> there's not much you can do with one that you can't do with the other.

BTW, the new release of 64Studio is now Ubuntu based instead of Debian.
I just installed the beta 3 version, it's still beta ( some random
interapp related crashes with Jack ), but seems pretty cool so far. At
any rate, it succeeded in installing right away, properly detecting my
hardware, and being able to run Jack at 1.4 ms latency out of the box.

I'm currently testing out living with a dual boot of Ubuntu desktop and
64studio.

Iain

> 
> -Chuckk
> 
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:42 AM, Emerson Aagaard
>  wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> >
> > I'm still familiarizing myself with Csound (and loving every moment of it,
> > of course), but I've been considering switching my OS (from windows) to one
> > of the linux distributions.
> >
> > I was simply wondering if I could get some feedback on what some of you
> > think is the most friends towards computer music/Csound usage.
> >
> > Yes, I understand that I should experiment myself, and read around, but all
> > of the "research" I've done this far really hasn't made anything stand out.
> >
> > Sorry for the sort-of-irrelevancy, and thanks in advance for replies.
> >
> > Emerson.
> 
> 
> 



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On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 12:11 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> I would recommend Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio. They are targeted at
> multimedia production, and are based on Debian (via Ubuntu). This means
> you can use the enormous amount of software packaged for Debian, while
> being a bit more user friendly than it.

I just did a bit of research on this and it seems like most people are
having better luck for hardware detection with 64Studio 3 beta 3
( ubuntu based ) over Ubuntu Studio. But, as they say, YMMV.

Iain




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Yeah ubuntu studio didn't work for me, I found 64studio or
fedora/planet ccrma work the best for me. But Ubuntu does work better
for 3d graphics work, so depends upon what you need it for. 64Studio
beta 3 is a great pure audio desktop,

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Iain Duncan  wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 12:11 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>> I would recommend Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio. They are targeted at
>> multimedia production, and are based on Debian (via Ubuntu). This means
>> you can use the enormous amount of software packaged for Debian, while
>> being a bit more user friendly than it.
>
> I just did a bit of research on this and it seems like most people are
> having better luck for hardware detection with 64Studio 3 beta 3
> ( ubuntu based ) over Ubuntu Studio. But, as they say, YMMV.
>
> Iain
>
>
>
>
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ubuntu studio doesn't seem to pick up on my highspeed internet like fedora 
11 does (I probily don't need it to though)  Artistx seemed like an
intresting version based on the number of packages it has but I am still
downloading it.  I wont know about latency though because it's virtual I
suspect it don't work the same.  

Brian Redfern-2 wrote:
> 
> Yeah ubuntu studio didn't work for me, I found 64studio or
> fedora/planet ccrma work the best for me. But Ubuntu does work better
> for 3d graphics work, so depends upon what you need it for. 64Studio
> beta 3 is a great pure audio desktop,
> 
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Iain Duncan  wrote:
>> On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 12:11 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> I would recommend Ubuntu Studio or 64 Studio. They are targeted at
>>> multimedia production, and are based on Debian (via Ubuntu). This means
>>> you can use the enormous amount of software packaged for Debian, while
>>> being a bit more user friendly than it.
>>
>> I just did a bit of research on this and it seems like most people are
>> having better luck for hardware detection with 64Studio 3 beta 3
>> ( ubuntu based ) over Ubuntu Studio. But, as they say, YMMV.
>>
>> Iain
>>
>>
>>
>>
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