My only suggestion would be to make sure the screen has 768 pixels of vertical resolution (Hans found an HP model that does - I'm not sure if others exist or not.) Otherwise, you can't project at any higher res than 640x480, even if the screen itself claims more.
I run Fedora (out of the box) with no trouble except I always seem to need to install a newer ALSA which requires recompiling the kernel; this would probably be easier in Debian than it is in Fedora.
Finally, I don't know of any perfect solution for more-than-2-channels of audio I/O via USB. The M-audio stuff doesn't work yet in duplex (they're working on that up in ALSA land). As of a week or 2 ago the latest ALSA tarballs work with Native Instruments TRAKTOR audio 10 - I've got that going but haven't yet tested thoroughly. Since the I/O is "phono" I'm unclear as to whether it does "RIAA equalization" or not; if so I'll make an inverse filter for Pd.
I've been using the Stringport for years, which is especially well adapted to multichannel guitar pickups (8 in, 2 out).
I simply don't know of any other multichannel USB devices that work with linux!
cheers Miller
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:51:35PM +0200, Peter Plessas wrote:
Hi,
just my 2 cents
Michael Zacherl. wrote:
Hello, in Weimar and Berlin I noticed quite a few people are using small laptops/netbooks.
I'm in the market for a netbook now and want to run linux w/ the usual suspects for experimental electronic music (Pure Data, SC, Ardour, Processing etc.) Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne as the operating system.
pure:dyne is a great project, but I recommend sticking to plain debian, due to its large user base. Afaik, pure:dyne is based on Debian anyway.
But I'm open to suggestions.
What would you recommend for the hardware? Last time I checked some products was in 2009. I suppose battery life has improved, CPUs became a tad faster and linux runs a bit smoother on such a thing. What I really barely can cope with s the glossy screens, but I'm afraid there's no way around it.
Some brands have alternatives, I think Lenovos do....
I'm planning to connect a USB-audio interface, so Firewire is not an issue (which Jack has troubles with, IIRC). Very nice to have would be a built in modem w/ Sim-card slot for mobile data transfer. (Linux supported of course).
Try to find a laptop for music with a quiet fan.
PP.
What would you suggest? Thanks a lot, Michael.
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