Hallo, Pedro Carneiro hat gesagt: // Pedro Carneiro wrote:
Re: Indeed, although linux is still rather scary for me.
It is to everyone. ;) That's part of the fun.
I have some basic knowledge and run a debian server with TWIGGI ( http://www.twiggi.org/ ), but have long been used to the mac os (11 years now). I have tried yellow dog linux on a imac, but it was really slow. What distro of linux would you recommend for audio?
I really don't know much about PowerPC-Linux. Personally I run Debian for years now, and at the Linux Audio Conference I saw at least one Powerbook that was running Debian as well (the one of Stefan "Supercollider" Kersten), so it is at least possible to make Debian work on a Mac.
Debian testing/unstable includes a hell of a lot of audio applications, and sooner or later Agnula/Demudi will merge their packages into it, then you will have even more of a choice. Other people I know use Gentoo on PPC. Personally I don't like waiting so much for something to compile, so I'm not very keen of Gentoo. If I want to compile a package I can built with Debian's apt-get easily as well.
So if you already have Debian experience, then I'd suggest you stay with it. As soon as you have learned the package tools for a distribution (and decided on a favourite editor) they are pretty much the same.
Ciao
Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__