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Keoki

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Dec 19, 2009, 4:51:41 PM12/19/09
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As a musician and composer I decided to try all 20 Linux music-making
variants one by one on the same PC, to find out how they compare,
which could work for a non-geek like me, etc. By now I'm on the 16th
one; the chronicle of my results, "Adventures in Linux MIDI" is at

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/155222-adventures-linux-midi.html

If you wondered about Linux yourself, feel free to drop by and join
the fun. Happy holidays!

Ian Bell

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Dec 19, 2009, 6:56:18 PM12/19/09
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What spec is your HP?

Note: Studio 64 is meant for 64 bit CPUs. There's a big clue in the title.

Cheers

Ian

Keoki

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Dec 21, 2009, 5:20:53 PM12/21/09
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Hello Ian,

To quote the 64 Studio web site (download page): "The 64 Studio ...
versions are available in 64-bit (labelled amd64) and 32-bit (labelled
i386) builds, to run on almost all PCs."

Greetings,
George

geoff

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Dec 21, 2009, 7:31:56 PM12/21/09
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So what's wrong with i386-64 ?

geoff


Keoki

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Dec 23, 2009, 3:56:56 PM12/23/09
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Hello Geoff,

I can't comment about the main distro, as I never got the 64 Studio
V2.0 or V2.1 installation to complete but I can attest that the V2.1
installer's partitioner whacked Windows XP beyond recovery. (Twice.)
Of all the 20 distros I went through so far, 64 Studio is pretty much
the only one which did, besides Indamixx, whose installer/partitioner
is also written by the 64 Studio team. (The latter partitioner whacked
XP after a successfully completed installation, so the damage doesn't
seem to be caused by an installation failure.)

I guess if you have a computer without any OS (or with one you don't
care to keep) then losing the old OS will not be an issue. I always
make sure to have a working Windows XP with correctly set MIDI and
audio before every Linux install, in case the distro is smart enough
to pick up the MIDI and audio settings from XP. (Some smoother distros
like ArtistX or OpenArtist do import the user accounts fine, if asked)

Greetings,
George

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