Best LTS Distro for Audio

[Oliv]

Hi,
My favorite distro are AVlinux and KxStudio.
Having tried both, and finally use KxStudio. It is very stable and work well out of the box.
If you don't like "kde" it's easy to install an other desktop.

Oliv

[Klaus]

I got the latest KXStudio for 32 bit
http://download.linuxaudio.org/kxstudio/..._32bit.iso
but it won't boot a Mac Mini 2,1 using rEFInd as bootloader…

Ubuntu Studio 32 bit works, 12 LTS and 16 LTS too

Has anyone KXStudio for 32 bit working on a 32 bit Mac ?

Thanks

Klaus

[Oliv]

I got the latest KXStudio for 32 bit
http://download.linuxaudio.org/kxstudio/..._32bit.iso
but it won't boot a Mac Mini 2,1 using rEFInd as bootloader…

Ubuntu Studio 32 bit works, 12 LTS and 16 LTS too

Has anyone KXStudio for 32 bit working on a 32 bit Mac ?

Thanks

Klaus

Hi, may be this can help you :

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2287767

[Klaus]

Thank you Oliv, but rEFInd did install an ia32 boot file, and it works with every 32bit Linux live cd I tested so far
- except the KXStudio 32bit one…

I think it could be that one - it is fairly new and could be a bug
( not so many 32bit machines around for that, I think )

Anyone ?

Best wishes

Klaus

[Klaus]

Found the answer on an ubuntu webchat…

the KXStudio 32bit .iso is defective…

Hope it helps someone here too

Best

Klaus

Thank you Oliv, but rEFInd did install an ia32 boot file, and it works with every 32bit Linux live cd I tested so far
- except the KXStudio 32bit one…

I think it could be that one - it is fairly new and could be a bug
( not so many 32bit machines around for that, I think )

Anyone ?

Best wishes

Klaus

[allank]

Slightly different approach is to roll your own, with Gentoo or Arch.

As these are rolling distros.. there isn't really an issue with LTS..
However the audio packages are entirely community built.

That being said, if you are sticking with Mixbus and a few plugins, that's not really a problem. I run Gentoo.. I tried the cutover to Arch, but I am more comfortable with Portage.. and also building stuff from scratch on Gentoo (such as the packages from KX studio)

[Septicide]

Going to give QStudio64 a go this weekend, will let you know what I think of it, looks promising, I got kxstudio working on my mint install but managed to totally screw it up compiling Ardour 5.5 so looking at easier options so I dont need to set everything back up again (kernel etc)and this looks perfect. Cheers!

[kkrekula]

I am using Ubuntu Mate 16.10 (which is a beautiful, easy-to-use and lightweight distribution) and have applied to the Ubuntu Studio packages for it as described here:

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/how-to-t...tudio/1752

Works great!

/Kenneth

[Ilaw]

Ubuntu studio 16.04.1 LTS
very nice for audio prod. left a trillion of expensive daws for mixbus. Done with ILOKS steinberg's keys and other craps. If someone thinks i'm crazy no pro (as i'm no pro i don't care) or idiot because i'm not using anymore my waves and slate, I don't care too. After ages of buying everything new on the market, from cakewalk to protools,logic pro9 to LPX, samplitude and sonar, studio one and many many others, left all that cr... for Mixbus,( waiting for mixbus 4 / ardour5 based) and reaper. Actually leaving mac os too as I see no new macs usable for music prod. Everyone knows the only serious choice we have on mac system are hacks, but as I don't want to spend my time and money fighting against the machine, i'm done with this too. win10 is nice afterall but linux works better for music prod. Linux for music linux for internet etc. works fine, costs nothing and unbreakable. and LEGAL. Linux everywhere. PC everywhere, dongles, activations, and other craps nowhere in my house/work.

with ardour we have dozens of excellents plugins. Who seriously needs 100 versions of neve preamp ?
Against of buying all emulations, people should take ONE REAL preamp, put it on the rack and they'll be done for 10 years !

My projects for 2017/2018 ?
New PC (powerfull one) on xeon or coreI7 on linux with SSD 2 DATA discs
nvidia Geforce for video
maybe soundcraft MTK 22 signature
500 series (I prefer buying 1 real hardware than 10 expensive softwares)
1 control surface
Linux
basta !

[Klaus]

Ubuntu studio 16.04.1 LTS
very nice for audio prod. left a trillion of expensive daws for mixbus. Done with ILOKS steinberg's keys and other craps. If someone thinks i'm crazy no pro (as i'm no pro i don't care) or idiot because i'm not using anymore my waves and slate, I don't care too. After ages of buying everything new on the market, from cakewalk to protools,logic pro9 to LPX, samplitude and sonar, studio one and many many others, left all that cr... for Mixbus,( waiting for mixbus 4 / ardour5 based) and reaper. Actually leaving mac os too as I see no new macs usable for music prod. Everyone knows the only serious choice we have on mac system are hacks, but as I don't want to spend my time and money fighting against the machine, i'm done with this too. win10 is nice afterall but linux works better for music prod. Linux for music linux for internet etc. works fine, costs nothing and unbreakable. and LEGAL. Linux everywhere. PC everywhere, dongles, activations, and other craps nowhere in my house/work.

with ardour we have dozens of excellents plugins. Who seriously needs 100 versions of neve preamp ?
Against of buying all emulations, people should take ONE REAL preamp, put it on the rack and they'll be done for 10 years !

My projects for 2017/2018 ?
New PC (powerfull one) on xeon or coreI7 on linux with SSD 2 DATA discs
nvidia Geforce for video
maybe soundcraft MTK 22 signature
500 series (I prefer buying 1 real hardware than 10 expensive softwares)
1 control surface
Linux
basta !

I'm testing out LInux and like it so far - except
- Parole Music player crash on quit prevents the whole rig from shut down or reboot
- no automatic mounting of FAT32 and HFS+ partitions
- permission problems to write to these
- can't prevent automatic booting on linux when power is applied to the machine.

If someone has links / infos, thanks in advance.
Once it's stable , > Mixbus testing is in order.
UbuntuStudio 12.04.5 was best so far,
16.04.1 with said 'Parole music player' problem.
I may try out different players, trying to replace iTunes,
that's what I use on the other partition with OSX 10.7.5 on this Mac Mini with the 'rEFInd' bootloader.

Best

Klaus