[PD] Distro no Doubt

[juto aviten]

hi,
a good distro for multidmedia : APODIO http://www.apodio.org (a new 
version will be online soon!)
it's based on mandriva but special integration for audio & video...and 
the pd proposition just kills!
I will send news on the list asap but it has a script developped to 
integrate your librairies automtically in .pdsh and allow to custom it 
easily. Also it has a main script to run pd with many librairies 
available and from my experience (dynebolic, fedora, debian...) it's the 
one that integrated more librairies than ever!!!

cheers


juto

> 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.
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> 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 ;-)
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> good luck,
> d.
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> Renato Fabbri wrote:
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>> I´m migrating from windows to linux, but to which
>> distro?
>> I intend using PD, sequencers and softsynths.
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>> 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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