Linux music production distros

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Wednesday Oct 12, 2011

Has anybody tried out any of the Linux distributions for music production?

How is it?

I am downloading Jacklab Audio Distribution (JAD)

TheBMC · Post by **TheBMC** » Thursday Oct 13, 2011

I have not but would be interested in your take on it after you give it a try.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Friday Oct 14, 2011

JAD loaded OK, but I had some trouble with the EMU APS audio system using JAD. Went to the developer site and it said: "Sorry, we are no longer developing or supporting JAD...blah, blah, blah.

I downloaded Ubuntu Studio 11 Linux distribution. Ubuntu should be around for awhile, since its a major Linux distro.

http://ubuntustudio.org/

I'll let you all know how I make out with it.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Saturday Oct 15, 2011

I will keep updating this post with items of interest.

1. ubuntu studio loaded without a problem, but I'm not getting sound from the EMU APS.

2. Could not login as root and found out that they disable the root account on installation. Probably a good idea for unix beginners.

To enable the root account, open a terminal and type:

sudo passwd root

and then type in the appropriate passwords