A linux daw in a pen drive…
This has been one of my hobbies lately:
A pen drive with linux installed prepared to run vst stuff. Some stuff works great, some stuff not so great and some stuff does not work at all. I went with debian because it’s much less bloated than ubuntu.
So all I have to do is to plug it to any computer that supports usb boot and pray. :hihi:
I made some scripts to automatically download and install the latest versions of the common stuff (wine, jackdmp, kernels, alsa drivers, etc), so basically everytime I want to try some new stuff I just click a button and enter the new version of what I want to set up.
While its not intended to be a replacement for my daw, who knows, it may save the day one day… At least my onboard realtek HD soundcard works better on this.
You would not like to share it by hazard?
please …
( Excuse my English, I am French ^^)
Good idea.🙂
start Your own distro😉
Great idea… I’ve been thinking about the same thing for a few time, but I didn’t take the time to do it. Also, another solution (instead of “WINEing” the whole thing), could be using a light Linux, like MINT of Puppy, with just the basic drivers, and running VMware or VirtualBox with Windows inside on top of it all. That would, of course, need a decent amount of total RAM (say… 4Gb) but you could get a much better compatibility…
🙂