Chris,

Thanks for the article...I'm dying to try out Linux and Ardour.  I'm thinking of starting out on an old box I have that is currently running cakewalk 8.  (yup, it's that old)  I couldn't find on the Ubuntu website what the minimum hardware requirements where...or what the optimal set up was.  Any advice?

Jeremy

Ok, I finally got the specs for my box.  I had to dig it out of the basement...  750MHz PIII, 512mb RAM and a MOTU PCI-324 card with MOTU 24/96 input boxes.  All of the specs I can find for the software relate to memory size, and hard drive size, but don't talk about the CPU.  I'm not going to be doing tons of tracks at once (yet) and probably not alot of effects either.  (personal preference, not because I'm afraid of my machine not keeping up)  I may just give it a shot and see what kind of performance I can get.  What do you think?

Jeremy

Ok, I've got Studio installed, and have disabled gnome and loaded up xfce.  I don't see a big speed difference yet, but I'm still working on it.  It looks like I'm going to have to dual boot my machine for the time being.  I'm using MOTU hardware, and the PCI-324 is not supported in Linux yet...(not sure it ever will...)  So I'm going to have to capture the audio in windows, then transfer over to linux to mix and add effects in the box.  Now I need to find a good inexpensive sound card that will work so I can actually get Jack/Ardour up and running.  Any thoughts?

Jeremy