64 Studio: Building a native 64-bit creative distribution (Free Software Magazine)

[Posted March 1, 2006 by cook]

Free Software Magazine covers the 64 Studio distribution, which includes many audio applications. "Most of the packages in 64 Studio come from the unofficial Pure 64 port of Debian testing, with some from Ubuntu, some from DeMuDi and some custom built. A more obvious choice might be Red Hat, given that many of the high end (which is to say expensive) proprietary tools used in Hollywood studios and elsewhere are sold as binary-only Red Hat packages. However, the split between Red Hat Enterprise and Fedora Core presents serious problems for any derived distribution. You could rebuild Red Hat Enterprise from source as long as you removed all Red Hat trademarks, but that's a lot of extra work -- and you'd have to follow Red Hat's agenda for its distribution, which you couldn't have any input to."