On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 16:16 +0000, ilya .d wrote:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:04:47AM -0400, Kevin McCoy wrote:
what distro are you on?
Ubuntu Studio Feisty 7.04. I usually do load some GNOME things ocasionally and I wonder if they are staying in the system... I'm running a P4 1.6 GHz 384 MB RAM so I need to keep the memory freed up. I will look into the running processes, I haven't taken the time to find out what is what yet. Application startup (including pd) is slow and the pc doesn't seem to be paging or anything to disk...
km
i'm not very positive about ubuntu ..
yo, for my part, i am very positive about ubuntu. i still have ubuntu dapper installed and i changed to fluxbox, though sometimes i still run some gnome applications. all drivers have been running out of the box (inlcuding video drivers, wireless and all that stufff); no issues with binary firmware of any hardware; getting realtime priority for pd and jack wasn't complicated at all; i get can 7ms roundtrip latency, if i want; i never had the feeling, that it takes too much time to start pd (though, i usually load only the libs needed); and i have also only 512MB RAM.
for all that, i wouldn't know why to use a distro, where it requires much more effort to get things working. this is just the experience i had, that doesn't necessarily apply to everyone else.
my two cents roman
i'd recoment you slackware - the latest release (12) now has HAL and 2.6.12 kernel ..it didn't have either before for a reason ..
well .. it's up to you which distro to run .. but some of them aren't designed to run on older hardware (such as suse and probably ubuntu)..
.. also may be it's a good idea to minimize the kernel (just too be sure :)
i'd say - i can set up a dedicated box which would have only necessary apps on it and would take the full advantage of the hw .. but it is very hard to explain all i would do setting it up.
try studing more about linux, i think if you feel up for it - you'll get to the point when you can sort it out.
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