Try AVLinux http://www.bandshed.net/AVLinux.html new release coming 15 August. Avlinux is not so small but good for Audio, I use this one.
http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6994 review of http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyStudio small good but a bit old ( 2011 ) but probably good enough, Maybe look at the recent puppies ones: http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm Take alook at the non-daw software http://non-daw.tuxfamily.org/ and also look in to http://offog.org/code/potamus.html for a jack enable multichannel audio player software that can be connected to ambdec. Puppy linux is small, nice and runs from RAM. - Bo-Erik Or the dated but low resource demanding, review here http://www.linuxmusicians.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6994 Download here http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyStudio -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerard Lardner Sent: den 5 augusti 2012 22:20 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: [Sursound] What AV Linux distro to use with an old laptop - is it likely to be at all useful Pesky things, bank holiday weekends; you end up looking into things that should best be buried and forgotten. I was clearing out the cupboard in my office at home recently and came across an old laptop. That got me wondering if this could be a useful surround sound editing/recording machine if a lighter/faster OS than Windows was installed. This laptop is old - very old: ca. 2000. Originally it had Windows 2000 installed, but when I gave it to my godson many years ago he upgraded it to Windows XP. The laptop came back to me a few years ago when he got a better machine, and has been languishing in a cupboard ever since. It's painfully slow trying to run under fully-updated Windows XP, far slower than when it had Windows 2000 installed, but it runs 32-bit Linux fast enough, even booting off a live CD. So it occurred to me that it might make a useful surround sound recording/editing machine if I did not want to use my newer PCs, which are often busy for hours running CFD and FEM models for my regular engineering business. The old laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8000 with a Pentium III processor at 750 MHz and 512 MB RAM. So it will not run any 64-bit OSs, and I am not even sure if it will actually boot off a DVD, though it does boot off CDs; but that's another problem, one which can probably be solved with a little lateral thinking. The immediate questions are: * Which distro(s) of Linux are most useful for surround sound (Ambisonic) work? And * Which (32-bit) distro of Linux is likely to be light enough for such an ancient laptop? Gerard Lardner -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20120805/f93ecf21/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
