[Ardour-Users] State of Gentoo for audio was Mac recommendations]]

[Rob Canning]

John Rigg wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:00:53PM +0900, sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
>   
>> Am I being naive to keep pushing, or is it really time to look at something
>> else more seriously and give up some of the performance benefits of having
>> a system completely CPU optimised?? <BR>
>>     
>
> Any amd64 distro will be optimised completely for x86_64 CPU. Gentoo only
> gives a performance advantage on x86.
>
> John
>   
if you are interested in a x86  Debian based multimedia distro look at:
http://puredyne.goto10.org
it runs this ardour very smoothly:

Ardour/GTK 2.5
   (built using 3525 and GCC version 4.3.1)

cheers
rob