Hardware recommendations ??

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thanks, Alex.  I'm off on slightly different tack here.  I do have a
laptop that runs Linux, but I need to build a desktop system and need
recommendations on a good motherboard and CPU combination for it.

On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 19:13 +0000, alexander dahlberg wrote:
> Hi lindsay.
> 
> I have been using ubuntu studio dist for about a year now an when i
> have time i will write down how i set it up on my old laptop for
> recording in our rehersal room.

I can do recording with my laptop, no problem.  I need to build a
multi-purpose desktop system which will take my M-Audio card, a 3ware
RAID card and other hardware which I need for all the various things I
intend to use it for.

> The awesome thing about linux systems is they dont need the most
> modern hardware to run smoothly. Im using a 5 year old zepto laptop
> with 70Gb of sata hdd.2Gb of ram and the built in intel HDA chip with
> one port in and one out. 

In fact, having built a number of Linux systems, I can testify that you
don't want to run it on bleeding edge hardware.  Many makers of hardware
have proprietary APIs for their stuff, and it often takes Linux
developers a while to document them and write drivers and programs to
work with them.  I have many times had to disable NICs, RAID controllers
or integrated sound cards on state-of-the-art MBs because they weren't
yet supported in Linux.

> For office app i use google docs and thats where i share my ogg's
> aswell with the rest of the band. 

I'm way beyond you, buddy.  I need to support diagrams (dia), OpenOffice
for PDFs, ODFs, DOCs, spreadsheets and the like, evolution for email and
more.  These are basic requirements.  Google docs won't cut it :-)

The box will be running ardour2, jackd, audacity, and several other
linux studio apps., but will need to do a variety of other jobs as well.

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