I've got a VIA C3 board (not sure about the model number) which was my main machine for a while. They're wonderful, not too fast, but very low power and reliable. Main thing I advise is to stay away from Gnome and KDE which are real CPU soakers. I use Fvwm which is wonderful, and twm is also great but takes a bit more work to learn to use. As long as your window manager and related garbage isn't eating 90% of your CPU you can rock and roll all day on a VIA CPU, and be a low polluter as well.
cheers Miller
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:56:27PM -0700, kevin ernste wrote:
--- Julien Jassaud sojastar@wanadoo.fr wrote:
Hi to all,
I've been using pd on OS X but I now need to use it with Linux on a Via Epia 5000 board. So I have two questions:
- has anyone ever used pd with such a motherboard?
- what is the best Linux distribution to use pd with?
I can't help you on the motherboard, but I would highly recommend Redhat Linux with PlanetCCRMA packages (low-latency/preemptive kernel, etc), including PD and libs:
http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/planetccrma.html
A close second, IMHO, would be Mandrake, and I'm sure others would mention Debian, esecially Agnula (http://www.agnula.org/).
Kevin
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