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.
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"..