Hi all,

I am replacing my aging Linux laptop (the one I use for gigs) with a newer one. I may just put Debian on it like the current one, but I thought I'd ask: what music/media-oriented distros do people like these days and would recommend? A realtime kernel is not super important to me (and they seem less necessary these days anyway), not that it's a bad thing.

- Dave

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I can't fault KXStudio. Everything works well out of the box and it provides nice interfaces to ask your jack needs.

On 24 Sep 2016 17:19, "Dave Seidel" <dave.seidel@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I am replacing my aging Linux laptop (the one I use for gigs) with a newer one. I may just put Debian on it like the current one, but I thought I'd ask: what music/media-oriented distros do people like these days and would recommend? A realtime kernel is not super important to me (and they seem less necessary these days anyway), not that it's a bad thing.

- Dave

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For what it is worth /i run OpenSuSE 13.2 on my laptop, 13.1 on my main machine and, less for music, Debian Wheezy on the server.

A the university where i used to work we chose SuSE as our supported distro and it was convenient to do the same at home.

OTOH I usually build stuff from source so am possible atypical

==John

On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Dave Seidel wrote:

Hi all,
I am replacing my aging Linux laptop (the one I use for gigs) with a newer
one. I may just put Debian on it like the current one, but I thought I'd ask:
what music/media-oriented distros do people like these days and would
recommend? A realtime kernel is not super important to me (and they seem less
necessary these days anyway), not that it's a bad thing.

- Dave

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I am not really sure there is great deal to be gained from a specific music distro today, except
maybe the convenience of having a patched kernel ready if you need one. Building
and installing software in linux is so easy that I find that a vanilla distro (of the subflavour of
your liking) and then adding packages as you need is the best to have an uncluttered system.
Even patching and compiling your own kernels is not that much trouble. But then my judgement
might be clouded from builiding a distro from scratch using yocto. Anything is easy after that.
========================
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> On 24 Sep 2016, at 19:36, jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> wrote:
>
> For what it is worth /i run OpenSuSE 13.2 on my laptop, 13.1 on my main machine and, less for music, Debian Wheezy on the server.
>
> A the university where i used to work we chose SuSE as our supported distro and it was convenient to do the same at home.
>
> OTOH I usually build stuff from source so am possible atypical
>
> ==John
>
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Dave Seidel wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am replacing my aging Linux laptop (the one I use for gigs) with a newer
>> one. I may just put Debian on it like the current one, but I thought I'd ask:
>> what music/media-oriented distros do people like these days and would
>> recommend? A realtime kernel is not super important to me (and they seem less
>> necessary these days anyway), not that it's a bad thing.
>> - Dave
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>> be posted here
>>
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I am not really sure there is great deal to be gained from a specific music distro today, except
maybe the convenience of having a patched kernel ready if you need one. Building
and installing software in linux is so easy that I find that a vanilla distro (of the subflavour of
your liking) and then adding packages as you need is the best to have an uncluttered system.
Even patching and compiling your own kernels is not that much trouble. But then my judgement
might be clouded from builiding a distro from scratch using yocto. Anything is easy after that.
========================
Dr Victor Lazzarini
Dean of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy,
Maynooth University,
Maynooth, Co Kildare, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 7086936
Fax: 00 353 1 7086952

> On 24 Sep 2016, at 19:36, jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> wrote:
>
> For what it is worth /i run OpenSuSE 13.2 on my laptop, 13.1 on my main machine and, less for music, Debian Wheezy on the server.
>
> A the university where i used to work we chose SuSE as our supported distro and it was convenient to do the same at home.
>
> OTOH I usually build stuff from source so am possible atypical
>
> ==John
>
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Dave Seidel wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am replacing my aging Linux laptop (the one I use for gigs) with a newer
>> one. I may just put Debian on it like the current one, but I thought I'd ask:
>> what music/media-oriented distros do people like these days and would
>> recommend? A realtime kernel is not super important to me (and they seem less
>> necessary these days anyway), not that it's a bad thing.
>> - Dave
>> Csound mailing list Csound@listserv.heanet.ie
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>> be posted here
>>
>
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I've been live-booting io gnu linux straight off a USB stick. Needed to add some repositories to update Csound, but otherwise... works well.

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Thanks all for your answers, all good info!

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 7:45 AM, thorin kerr <thorin.kerr@gmail.com> wrote:

I've been live-booting io gnu linux straight off a USB stick. Needed to add some repositories to update Csound, but otherwise... works well.

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