[PD] knoppix on cd / knoppix with pd

[Frank Barknecht]

Hi,
Comic Cuteness hat gesagt: // Comic Cuteness wrote:

> after reading about knoppix on this list, I obtained the image. it's 
> truly the coolest! 

I also got around to try it yesterday and I can confirm it's a
pleasant suprise.  

> I guess knoppix uses oss because it does sound configuration with the 
> red hat utility - 

Yes, I think that's the reason. 

> if I recall you can't get really low latency with oss?  does pd even
> work with oss? 

I'm a big ALSA fan, but both of this isn't true. You can get low
latency with OSS as well and PD works just fine with OSS. Running off
a CD is a lot worse latency-wise.

> I'd much rather use alsa, but you know what they say about beggars.
> I know somebody mentioned this before, but it would be amazing to
> make an audio oriented image of this. or I might have to install
> linux. hehe

Throwing away OpenOffice and installing PD and some other soundapps on
it wouldn't be that hard.

I'll take a closer look at how to customize Knoppix the next days and
will report here. Probably customizing is easier if one is running
Debian, because that's the base for Knoppix, and I am running Debian.

ciao,
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__