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these guys at trinity audio group are selling an atom based netbook running transmission 3.0 plus energy XT + ArdourXchange. also some plugin, samples, etc ... libraries onboard. around 500$-600$. http://www.trinityaudiogroup.com/ 2009/7/1, van Sinn <vansinn@post.cybercity.dk>: > michael noble wrote: >> I've tried ubuntustudio, 64studio, puredyne, studiotogo, angnula, >> Fedora/CCRMA. There are other promising distros emerging to tempt me (or >> meta-distros like Gentoo pro audio overlay) but I now use openSUSE as my >> primary studio platform. I have three machines running this way, each >> with multiple instances of sooperlooper as needed, along with various >> other applications. I'm a little snowed under at work at moment, but if >> I can offer any tips I'll be happy to. Weekends are always better. And >> when I get around to updating my website I'll be putting more details of >> my setup up there. >> >> regards >> >> Michael N > > > Interesting news. > With 14+ years on Linux, I tried using it for audio long ago, and have > since occationally tried a few things, only to quickly retract again. > I fairly often dive into the soundonsound.com Linux forum to see what's > happening, and get the impression people are still having the well-known > issue that some audio application dies, sometime ending up as a zombi > process which can't easily be cleared (wait it out or reboot). > This app death often takes jack, the audio routing protocol, down, after > which jack doesn't restart as intended, but has to restarted from the > command line. > > It's true that some VST things can be run through the wine or crossover > windows app emulators, but it's my impression it can be a hit and miss, > and require some time for editing profiles to make the integration work. > > Alsa, the basic audio stuff is often said to require some setup, and is > reputed to have a slowish development. Other audio subsystems exists. > > To be fair to Linux as an audio platform, I'm reverse biased and don't > follow it close enough, so take my comments with a grain of salt.. > > Some useful ressources: > http://www.linuxaudio.org/ > http://www.linuxaudio.org/resources > > For supported (semi)pro audio hardware, I used to check something akin > to linuxaudiodevices.something, but can't find or remember it anylonger. > > -- > rgds, > van Sinn > > -- Raul Bonell at Blogger: http://raulbonell.blogspot.com Chain Tape Collective: http://www.ct-collective.com