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Try Mandrake Linux. Buy the full 7 CD version. It comes with a decent array of audio programs and the ALSA drivers and utilities. -Greg On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 07:30 PM, Scott Carr wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm cross-posting this to hopefully get a few replies since I know there > aren't a ton of Linux users on any of these lists. Please feel free to > correct / redirect me if you think I've veered too far OT. > > What I've got: > > PII 266 > ASUS P2B mobo > zip. flop, 20X Acer CD Rom > SB16 MCD/ASP ISA (I hrt this vintage card) > 192 PC100 ram > 20GB Western Digital Main drive (for OS + APPS) > 60GDB IBM Deathstar (For audio storage, probably as one big NTFS > partition - must be able to mount this from Linux) > Netgear Ethernet adaptor > Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 AGP display card > > What I'm trying to do: > > I have a tiny 500MB Windows 3.11 partition that I need to keep for the > Cakewalk 3.0 old sequences + SB16 win3.11 only software I've got working > very stably, but I'd like to use the rest of this for Linux / BSD / BeOs > partitions. > > I know this is a loaded question, but what IS the best Linux distro for > audio (given the above hardware?). I've looked around, but found nothing > catering to setting up a particular Linux distro for Audio + MIDI. > Anybody have any hints / horror stories? I'm not necessarily looking for > the newest and slickest. Stable + vastly configurable = good. I NEED to > have this box networked + talking to a Mac G3 and a PIII as the gateway > for internet connection sharing. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > > Scott > > -- > ~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~ > % > Visit the the home of Hebephrenic, The Hot Buttered Elves, & Sunshine > > http://www.tapehissrecordings.com > > and our sites at the worlds largest online cut-out bin > > http://mp3.com/hotbutteredelves > http://mp3.com/hebephrenica > http://mp3.com/sunshineallthetime > ~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~ > % > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "What's in the Fungus Mungus? Never mind just bring it to me" -Cheech and Chong