Hi I want to share this info if you are intrested in the Raspberry PI. Debian based release for Raspberry Pi, sound drivers not yet in this Alpha release, but comming...
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/arm/test/raspi-sap6-5.96-alpha2/sap-5.96-alpha2-readme.htm http://bkhome.org/blog/?page=1 Extract from Barrys Blog: Personal comment I have got to say, and of course I am probably biased, but I think that this pup is shaping up as the simplest and most complete out-of-the-box experience for newcomers to the RP. Just about every app they might want ready-to-go, the Puppy Package Manager can install any app from the huge Debian repository, our simple "devx" one-file-install to transform our pup into a complete C/C++/Vala/Genie/BaCon compiler environment -- I recommend BaCon as a very easy language for programming-newbies. Or, you can create utility and GUI apps without the the "devx" file, using just Ash/Bash, Perl or jimTcl scripting and gtkdialog (see Pburn, Pmusic and dozens of other apps created this way). ...yes, our tiny 85.6MB pup also has Perl and Tcl, albeit cutdown versions. If you really *must* have Python (see here why *not*: http://bkhome.org/genie/) then it is in the "devx". Heh, heh, I am just stirring some Python fans up, of course Python is ok if you want, but not much good for writing apps in Puppy as the "devx" is needed. -----Original Message----- From: sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu [mailto:sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Marc Lavallée Sent: den 5 juli 2012 03:40 To: sursound@music.vt.edu Subject: Re: [Sursound] preferred (small) linux distro for audio? Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <na...@ccrma.stanford.edu> a écrit : > Yum has gotten much faster recently, but I have no idea how it > compares with apt today. IMHO it is as easy to use as apt (ie: it is > functionally equivalent), but it may be slow (perhaps to the point of > being unusable?) on low end systems. I should give it a try in the > beagle board systems we use @ ccrma. Fedora is the default distribution for the Raspberry Pi, so there's probably good reasons to use it on such a slow computer. When I tried YUM on the XO, the unusable part of the process was reading and refreshing the packages database. But installing packages seems to be as randomly slow with YUM or APT. A linuxer demoed it twice, for fun: APT wins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ejfNfEZDvs YUM wins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uRwFIb-g5w Single board computers are interesting platforms to create dedicated ambisonic players. Let us know how the beagle board perform with a port of Planet CCRMA. ;-) Marc _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
