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OK, my job is currently sending me to a 5 weeks solaris crash course, and i'd like to create a unix partition on my box, so that i can practice, and fall in luv. My questions are; My box is centered around multi-media. Which Unix/linux/solarus version shold i run? what software is available on these platforms? (i've already checked out sonicfoundry (now probably called sonic sony)] |
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linux isnt really at the cutting edge of audio at all, due to limited software(at the moment) and such like. you can get some very good utilities tho, which could do some 'unique' audio things. get a decent distro such as redhat or suse. steer clear of debian unless you have experience. mandrake is ok. redhat is generally the industry standard linux. i dont know about solaris, but linux=unix~solaris. theyre all basically the same, until you look under the bonnet, but that all depends on if you are running on i86(pc) / alpha / PowerPC / other architecture. Ive had limited experience on mac osx, but it is great for music/audio and supposedly is unix compatible and features a bash shell, perhaps a new mac would be good, but for now just get a new distro and try it on pc, should set up partitions,etc easily and you can play around all you want. for faster audio log in as root, since you get a higher task priority, but as root, you can trash the system SO easily, since it assumes you know EXACTLY what you are doing, so probably get a normal user account unless you don't mind accidents happenning....or for multi media, try installing the BeOS, it was designed for multimedia humungus files, although has limited support and not much software, it might be perhaps worth a look? In short: @Get redhat/suse/other distro @look on internet,linux.com,sourceforge.net,etc for audio things @wait, because linux development is shooting forward and its only a matter of time before it will rival mac osx for audio (i hope) @remember most software is FREE :) --Goodluck. |
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