I'm looking to repave an old machine that has an ancient RedHat on it, 
and I'm looking for recommendations for distributions that would be 
particularly good (or are known to work well) for Csound development. 
For example, Planet CCRMA package looks really good, but seems to be 
limited to Fedora Core -- not necessarily a problem, but what about 
Debian or CentOS or ....?

Note that this is not a fast machine, and I don't expect to do any 
real-time work on it (I can do that on my laptop).  But I want to be 
able to build Csound from scratch and use a variety of tools.

I am open to your suggestions; thanks in advance.

- Dave

Dave Seidel wrote:

> I'm looking to repave an old machine that has an ancient RedHat on it, 
> and I'm looking for recommendations for distributions that would be 
> particularly good (or are known to work well) for Csound development. 
> For example, Planet CCRMA package looks really good, but seems to be 
> limited to Fedora Core -- not necessarily a problem, but what about 
> Debian or CentOS or ....?
>
> Note that this is not a fast machine, and I don't expect to do any 
> real-time work on it (I can do that on my laptop).  But I want to be 
> able to build Csound from scratch and use a variety of tools.
>
> I am open to your suggestions; thanks in advance.

Hi Dave:

  I've built Csound on a variety of Linux distros. Basically, they'll 
all do well with Csound on your machine as long you keep its resource 
demands low, e.g., skip using KDE or GNOME.

  I'm currently running home-built Cs5 on my laptop (RH9) and my desktop 
machine (Debian etch, Demudi 1.3). As long as you've met the build 
requirements you should be in good shape.

  Btw, I do suggest either PlanetC or Demudi because they supply the 
low-latency stuff. However, if real-time is of no concern you might do 
as well with any recent distro. I hear good things about Ubuntu these 
days, and I also hear good things about the OOTB performance of some 
recent 2.6 kernels.

HTH,

dp

I use Fedora core 4 and I am happy with it. It is also worth either getting
a low latency kernel (eg. off PlanetCCRMA) or building one yourself.

At 15:24 03/04/2006, you wrote:
>I'm looking to repave an old machine that has an ancient RedHat on it, and 
>I'm looking for recommendations for distributions that would be 
>particularly good (or are known to work well) for Csound development. For 
>example, Planet CCRMA package looks really good, but seems to be limited 
>to Fedora Core -- not necessarily a problem, but what about Debian or 
>CentOS or ....?
>
>Note that this is not a fast machine, and I don't expect to do any 
>real-time work on it (I can do that on my laptop).  But I want to be able 
>to build Csound from scratch and use a variety of tools.
>
>I am open to your suggestions; thanks in advance.
>
>- Dave
>
>
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> I'm looking to repave an old machine that has an ancient RedHat on it,
> and I'm looking for recommendations for distributions that would be
> particularly good (or are known to work well) for Csound development.
> For example, Planet CCRMA package looks really good, but seems to be
> limited to Fedora Core -- not necessarily a problem, but what about
> Debian or CentOS or ....?
> 
> Note that this is not a fast machine, and I don't expect to do any
> real-time work on it (I can do that on my laptop).  But I want to be
> able to build Csound from scratch and use a variety of tools.
> 
> I am open to your suggestions; thanks in advance.

I have been very happy with Gentoo for all my csound and audio dev
needs. It takes a longish time to setup, but installing and adding audio
drivers, utilities, and other apps and dev toolkits is fabulously easy
with Gentoos portage system. I also run a Debian box but prefer Gentoo
for audio/csound.

Iain

>  I've built Csound on a variety of Linux distros. Basically, they'll all
> do well with Csound on your machine as long you keep its resource
> demands low, e.g., skip using KDE or GNOME.

I find fluxbox to be nice for this. With csound5 running with --sched I
can do anyold thing without breakup.

>  I'm currently running home-built Cs5 on my laptop (RH9) and my desktop
> machine (Debian etch, Demudi 1.3). As long as you've met the build
> requirements you should be in good shape.
> 
>  Btw, I do suggest either PlanetC or Demudi because they supply the
> low-latency stuff. However, if real-time is of no concern you might do
> as well with any recent distro. I hear good things about Ubuntu these
> days, and I also hear good things about the OOTB performance of some
> recent 2.6 kernels.

Yup, 2.6.15 hauls ass unpatched. It includes Ingo's desktop pre-empt
patch in the stock code, but you do have to recompile your kernel and
turn on that option. 1.5ms roundtrip latency for me, 0.7 one way.

Iain

Thanks to Dave, Iain, Jonathan and (on the dev list) Victor for all the 
recommendations.  These are all attractive alternatives.  I've decided 
to go with Planet CCRMA on Fedora Core 4, because 1) I've always wanted 
to check out Planet CCRMA, and 2) I'm most familiar with RedHat, so 
Fedora won't be too much of a stretch.  Since the machine is currently 
headless, I'm going to keep it that way and go non-GUI all the way on 
this machine (no Gnome or KDE), and use it as both a server and as a 
command-line client via local telnet.

- Dave

Dave Seidel wrote:
> I'm looking to repave an old machine that has an ancient RedHat on it, 
> and I'm looking for recommendations for distributions that would be 
> particularly good (or are known to work well) for Csound development. 
> For example, Planet CCRMA package looks really good, but seems to be 
> limited to Fedora Core -- not necessarily a problem, but what about 
> Debian or CentOS or ....?
> 
> Note that this is not a fast machine, and I don't expect to do any 
> real-time work on it (I can do that on my laptop).  But I want to be 
> able to build Csound from scratch and use a variety of tools.
> 
> I am open to your suggestions; thanks in advance.
> 
> - Dave
>