[PD] Distro Doubt

[derek holzer]

My suggestion would be to use Ubuntu to get a basic installation, and 
add the DeMuDi packages on top of that. Ubuntu should streamline the 
hardware detection & configuration process quite nicely. The DeMuDi 
packages could be part of Debian (Unstable/Testing?) already, so it's 
just a matter of updating the sources you download from.

Fedora is nice but very bloated, and not all the PD externals are there 
yet. And RedHat/Fedora do things in their own special way, which can 
make it difficult for non Fedora-users to help you out. OTOH Debian is 
pretty standard, and shares many similarities with a lot of other 
distros, so you can find help in a lot more forums, etc.

Dynebolic is OK as a live CD, but pretty much impossible to reconfigure, 
so I'd skip it for a permanent installation unless you need something 
working RIGHT NOW ;-)

good luck,
d.

Renato Fabbri wrote:
> I´m migrating from windows to linux, but to which
> distro?
> I intend using PD, sequencers and softsynths.
> 
> A friend highly recommended fedora core 4 and the
> ccrma pack, but I heard about GeeXboX, dyne:bolic, and
> DeMuDi, which all are called "multimedia distros"..



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