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Thanks seablade. I think i'm going to snage the m-audio solo really soon. I just hosed my desktop system (fdisk'd the wrong hd ) so I may install SUSE sooner than I wanted to. I'm gonna grab the solo so that I can record on both my laptop and that machine and not have to pay for two expensive cards. I just hope there's no latency issues (in winxp) over the firewire connection. I'm definately going to sign up on those forums.

Back to trying to recover my lost recording sessions on my dead drive.

I just verified that Super Quartet works with muse/rosegarden. I'm not sure if that means it will work with ardour, tho.

It most likely will.

Good luck with the firewire interface, sometimes they can be tricky from what i have heard, but usually Suse is pretty decent. I have heard of people using Suse for Audio, but I have started avoiding it since i have started doing Audio in Linux because it just installs so much crap with it that are good for newcomers and to make things easy, like windows, but bad for those that need the performance.

But try it first and see how you do, as I said I have heard of people using 9.2 for audio lately though, kinda surprised me.

Seablade

I snagged the m-audio firewire 410 instead. Guitar Center gave me a decent deal on it ($250 after tax).

What distro do you recommend? Generally, I don't install tons of apps, but I will install tons of libraries because I hate application installation issues when I have to install like 30 libraries for a calculator. I assume that practice is a bad thing? YAST goes a long way in fixing that, for me at least.

What distro do you recommend? (please don't say debian or slackware, I don't have the patience for them) Do you find performance differences with KDE and Gnome? I prefer Gnome as of late, but I'd like to get a more knowlegable
person's opinion.

Again, thank you!
-BT

Heh never assume I am knowledgeable I gives me an ego.

But on to distros, personally I have tried quite a few lately, and despite what you said about hating debian, honestly their apt package system you would love, takes care of all the dependancies right there for you. But anyways ill give ya some options from some of the ones I have tried lately...

DeMudi-Debian based(Sorry)2.4 kernel specificly geared towards audio and pre-tweaked. If your stuff works under 2.4 this is a great distro for audio, fast and comes pre-setup. But as I said it is debian based.

CCRMA- This is your non debian based alternative really. It runs on top of Fedora Core 3(Meaning you have to install FC3 first) but is uses its own version of apt I believe(With its own repository). I have not personally tried this one but have some people I trust that have said it works great. Pretty much you install FC3, download and install the apt software for it, and use that to install CCRMA on top of it with ease. It tweaks itself supposedly to be completly useful.

Those are your two main frontrunners in Audio Distros at the moment, now for other options...

Suse- Good general distro, installs everything and its mother so I think it runs a bit slow myself, but probably one of the best at getting about everything that will work to work out of the box, but if it doesnt work it like any other distro takes a bit of work to get it working(Yea I used work to many times

FC3- If you are getting this, get CCRMA. Past that I cant help you much, havent used it myself

Ubuntu- Good Distro, debian based, run my server on it. Pretty lightweight, uses apt(Debian based again I might consider running an audio machine off it.

Gentoo- Currently a work in progress, started yesterday with the install. Only tryi if you know what you are doing in linux already, but a good way to get a customized system tweaked for whatever you need. It compiles EVERYTHING from scratch and is easy to add your optomization flags to the compile process to help make sure things are speedy. Currently getting X running on it myself, and like what I have seen thus far. A good choice if you know what you are doing, and its portage package manager system is second only to apt in my opinion, if it takes longer due to compiling everything as it comes in. I WILL be running audio off this box(My brand new Opteron based machine

Well that gives you a couple of options with my opinions. From the sounds of it I think you will probably end up with CCRMA or Gentoo depending on how comfortable you feel with linux as your best choices if you want to stick away from debian.

In as far as Gnome vs KDE... Gnome.

It just seems lighterweight and runs faster. Course then again I will beinstalling e17 on my Gentoo box and seeing how that goes too Not quite stable yet but it looks fun to play in. But something like fluxbox would work well for audio when you start gettting very comfortable in linux again. Not nearly as userfriendly as gnome, but much faster than either gnome of Kde could hope to be because it doesnt use stuff like nautilus.

Seablade and Seablaede
The Ashrim

Thanks again seablade. I installed Suse 9.2(because I have it already). I'm going to goof with it for a while before I wipe it out and try some other distros (namely the ones you mentioned). I figure I'll screw things up plenty to justify multiple reformats.

-BT

Strangely that sounds EXACTLY like how I learned linux Started with Suse and ended up reformating many times till I gotan idea what I was doing and moved on from there Have fun.

Seablade