[sdiy] PC synth

[fdion at cimastudios.com]

Quoting Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr>:

> On 2006-08-23 18:22 -0400, anthony wrote:
> > I have a number of old PC's that I used to use, but are now collecting
> > dust.
[...]
> > Anybody have any experience doing something like this? What would be
> > the best software to use and what would be the best install of Linux
> > or FreeBSD or whatever so that I didn't have to run X Windows. Linux
> > runs great on slow machines until you try to run X...
> 
> For a minimal installation, forget about recent releases of Red
> Hat, SuSE or Mandrake. It'll be Slackware or Debian (or possibly
> one of its derivatives, but I doubt minimal server installs rank
> high in Ubuntu's priorities). Unlike Roy, I won't recommend
> Slackware, as I switched from it to Debian 8 years ago. <g>
> 
> But you might want to look into one of the specialised audio
> distros :
> 
>   DeMuDi       http://demudi.agnula.org/
>   Planet CCRMA http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/

An even better distribution for slower hardware is a Dyne based:

Pure:Dyne
Dyne:Bolic

Dyne:Bolic 2 is pretty much solid. Really fast. Uses WindowMaker. It is also
trivial to test drive it: you burn the cd from the iso and boot and test as a
live CD, or even better, copy the /dyne folder to your hard disk (any x86 OS and
works even on NTFS) and when you boot from the CD it will ask if you want to use
the hard disk image.

Try it: www.dynebolic.org

Francois
http://www.cimastudios.com/fdion