Hey/
An e-mail exchange with andrew savory where I asked questions on linux/sound/cocoon+xml(xslt), went something like:
(me)<<
-where do you think I should start as far as distributions? slackware
seems
too hardcore, mandrake seems to give you 5000 apps I don't need...I'm looking for a fast, stable, server system for sound and network tasks, pretty much only...though X11 will be needed, since my unix skills aren't that good at all.
(a.savory)>> I'd go for Debian. It's a bit of a beast to install, but worth sticking with as maintenance is a dream.
and... (me)<<
I really could use some advice on this, + any references to books, dists
on
CD you may have lying around, etc. Hope I'm not being to cheeky there, but Jonathan Impett (new guy at MUS) is plotting little nets of penguins
talking
sound at each other, and it would be great to build a couple as test boxes...
(a.savory)>> Sounds cool - best bet is to email the alug list and ask someone to burn a CD for you. Brett is usually pretty happy to help in that respect.
so anyway, I've read this list for a while (never active, anonymous coward like), earlier attempts with redhat 5.x etc thwarted by lack of unix know-how, though managed sound and a couple o' apps...back again to try (hopefully for good) and build a stable sound/networking box, then a first version of PC-104 or hacked laptop based wearable with a smaller, (maybe Work_std?) debian installation to run scaled down sound + net applications, which will form part of ARiADA (advanced research in aesthetics in the digital arts)...
I really need all the help I can get, basically.
What I think I need, from reading the debian site: A Devel_comp setup with X11 (planning for sound) and Server_std. Will promise to do my homework on install docs and sound setup, but need pointers + - miracles to start this well...
people directly involved and/or about to be:
j.impett@uea.ac.uk (music faculty)
m.dixon@uea.ac.uk (researcher, ARiADA, SARA, music department)
d.casal@uea.ac.uk (me, codemonkey helper for the above projects, XHTML, SMIL, etc)
pseudoshark@netscapeonline.co.uk (edward.kelly@uea.ac.uk postgraduate researcher @ MUS)
any help at all will be greatly appreciated.
cheers, david casal
for what it's worth, I run redhat 6.2 on my wearable (http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/), but only because I cut my teeth on redhat 3.0.3. I keep hearing lots of good things about debian, I might have to play with it when I get some free time ;)..
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"d.casal" wrote:
Hey/
An e-mail exchange with andrew savory where I asked questions on linux/sound/cocoon+xml(xslt), went something like:
(me)<<
-where do you think I should start as far as distributions? slackware
seems
too hardcore, mandrake seems to give you 5000 apps I don't need...I'm looking for a fast, stable, server system for sound and network tasks, pretty much only...though X11 will be needed, since my unix skills aren't that good at all.
(a.savory)>> I'd go for Debian. It's a bit of a beast to install, but worth sticking with as maintenance is a dream.
and... (me)<<
I really could use some advice on this, + any references to books, dists
on
CD you may have lying around, etc. Hope I'm not being to cheeky there, but Jonathan Impett (new guy at MUS) is plotting little nets of penguins
talking
sound at each other, and it would be great to build a couple as test boxes...
(a.savory)>> Sounds cool - best bet is to email the alug list and ask someone to burn a CD for you. Brett is usually pretty happy to help in that respect.
so anyway, I've read this list for a while (never active, anonymous coward like), earlier attempts with redhat 5.x etc thwarted by lack of unix know-how, though managed sound and a couple o' apps...back again to try (hopefully for good) and build a stable sound/networking box, then a first version of PC-104 or hacked laptop based wearable with a smaller, (maybe Work_std?) debian installation to run scaled down sound + net applications, which will form part of ARiADA (advanced research in aesthetics in the digital arts)...
I really need all the help I can get, basically.
What I think I need, from reading the debian site: A Devel_comp setup with X11 (planning for sound) and Server_std. Will promise to do my homework on install docs and sound setup, but need pointers
- miracles to start this well...
people directly involved and/or about to be:
j.impett@uea.ac.uk (music faculty)
m.dixon@uea.ac.uk (researcher, ARiADA, SARA, music department)
d.casal@uea.ac.uk (me, codemonkey helper for the above projects, XHTML, SMIL, etc)
pseudoshark@netscapeonline.co.uk (edward.kelly@uea.ac.uk postgraduate researcher @ MUS)
any help at all will be greatly appreciated.
cheers, david casal
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