[Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff

[David Smith]

Andy,

That's great to hear regarding Studio64 - I've heard some good things 
about it but have never really been in a position to warrant trying it 
(need to start actually playing / being taught how to play my 
instruments again!).

Look forward to hearing more about how that gets along.

Best,

Dabe

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> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:18:40 +0100
> From: andy baxter <andy at earthsong.free-online.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] distro for audio / music stuff
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> I'm just trying out 64studio ( 64studio.com ). It seems to be very 
> closely based on debian (it uses all debian repositories unless you want 
> bleeding edge stuff which they have their own repository for). So far I 
> am massively impressed. The installation was easy enough - you could 
> complain about the lack of a graphical installer, but it isn't really 
> necessary, and there weren't too many questions to answer. All my 
> hardware seems to have been detected ok (on an IBM / lenovo thinkpad). 
> And it is so much faster / more responsive than ubuntu - programs start 
> in under half the time I would say than on ubuntu. I found this very 
> surprising, because I thought ubuntu was pretty close to debian as well.
> 
> The main thing I was worrying about with switching to a distro so close 
> to debian is that I would have to do a lot of extra work setting up 
> things like detecting and mounting usb devices, which as far as I 
> remember wasn't set up by default last time I was running debian as a 
> desktop. But it detects and mounts my usb hard drive fine.
> 
> The audio programs I wanted to use (jackd and ardour) are working better 
> than in ubuntu so far, which is why I decided to have a look at 64 
> studio in the first place, so that's good.
> 
> Will write more if I come across anything else noteworthy in the next 
> week or so.
> 
> andy