Re: [Rosegarden-user] Fave studio distro

[steve c. <ste...@gm...>]

I was using Artist X for quite a while.

http://www.artistx.org/site3/

It's a live distribution that's distributed as a live DVD image. Based on
Ubuntu 10.04. Comes with a whole shit load of linux sound apps, including
Rosegarden, jack and fluisynth. Also the default kernel has the real time
patch applied to it. Pretty handy, unless you're like me and find Ubuntu an
annoying linux distribution. Anyway, if you install it to the harddrive or a
USB stick and let it grind away at the updates, you'll end up with a pretty
current set of everything.

Personally, I much prefer running OpenSuse. Seems to be aimed at adults a
bit more than Ubuntu is. Only problem is, the realtime kernel for OpenSuse
11.3 won't boot on my system anymore (i.e. since I updated it last time). My
attempts to compile my own real time kernel always end up with my b43
wireless card not working. All messages on this subject have been met with
deafening silence at the linux-rt, linux wireless and OpenSuse mailing
lists. Not really sure what the matter is, but I won't get into it here.

My current solution is to run the Ubuntu real time kernel on OpenSuse 11.3.

This yields the rather odd (for an OpenSuse machine) uname results below:

steve@lizard:~> uname -a
Linux lizard 2.6.31-11-rt #154-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Wed Jun 9 12:28:53 UTC
2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Works very well for me, even if it is a bit of a hillybilly's truck with
mismatched body parts. ( I have one of those trucks of my own, btw ).