MediaDistributions
From the ALSA wiki
Here are a list of linux based audio and/or video based media CD and downloadable distributions, and also content. Some links taken from Dave Phillips site.
- Tons of audio apps, livecd & distros. Mainly responsible for maintaining DeMuDi - A Custom Debian Distribution. Does not work well with hardware requiring proprietary code. Relatively quick and straightforward to install and upgrade. Includes a full range of GPL music software and will run on most x86 machines. Highly useable.
- DeMuDi - the Debian Multimedia Distribution, see aGNUla.org above
- APODIO is an "...audio computer on a live CD bootable distribution".
- Dynebolic - a GNU/Linux distribution "... shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and teachers".
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/ISO/
- Free!Music - from Russia with love, a CD of OGG files from more than 30 artists in various musical styles.
ftp://FTP.SUSE.com/pub/suse/i386/live-cd-9.2/
- Linux Audio Live CD - published by the German magazine Keyboards, now freely available on-line.
http://mStation.org/appsCD.html
- Linux Music Apps CD - a great collection from John Littler.
ftp://ftp.udoj.org/linux/RPMS/kernels/LowLatency/
- Low-latency RPMs - packages from Udo Jocher that include a 2.4.18 kernel patched for low-latency and preemptive operation.
ftp://logx.it/mirrors/medialinux/
- Medialinux at OSL - a Knoppix-based Linux distribution focused on multimedia.
http://WWW-CCRMA.Stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/
- PlanetCCRMA At Home - RPM packages of the Linux sound and music software used at CCRMA, thanks to Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano.
http://www.ferventsoftware.com
- Commercial Live CD - "Studio ... to Go!". Put out by the same poeple who make Rosegarden so you can rely on that program working well. It has a limited selection of software designed to get you up and running as quickly as possible. Includes support for VSTs and DSSIs (synth plug-ins) and is designed to work well on an existing Windows box. Requires 800MHz+ CPU and plenty of memory.
- Thac's RPMs For Mandrake - includes a large collection of Linux music and sound packages.
http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/
- Turn-Key Linux Audio - a new Linux audio distro from Kevin Ernste at the Eastman Computer Music Center.
- m-dist - a SlackWare-based "live" Linux system specially tuned for MIDI and audio use.
- Csound - synthesis & composition
http://CCRMA.Stanford.edu/software/cm/doc/cm.html
- Common Music - composition environment
http://CCRMA.Stanford.edu/software/clm/
- Common Lisp Music - synthesis
