Puppy Linux 4 & Ardour 2
 

Hi There...

I'm just wondering if it's possible to get Ardour 2 working on Puppy Linux 4.

If so...
then please show me a dumb-ass-noobie way through the setup process.

Thank You,
toni S / Finland.

Possible? - yes
Practicle? - probably not

Ardour is a fairly heavy application by puppy standards. To run Ardour properly, you need a realtime or low-latency kernel and the jack audio server - I can't imagine that either is available for puppy. Ardour isn't that hard to compile if you can find the requirements. On Puppy I can imagine that you might have to compile some of the requirements - so this is a fairly big project for a self-proclaimed 'dumb-ass-newbie' :)

I would try xubuntu (7.10 for the time being) - it has all the requirements packaged.

I love puppy but for audio work I would recommend dyne:bolic (www.dynebolic.org/).

This is a live CD with low latency kernel which has Ardour, Jack, Ladspa effects, Hydrogen & whole lot of other audio stuff already installed. There is also an HD install method a bit like the puppy method of copying compressed files to the hard drive. It is designed to work on older harware so it flies on newer kit.

Hello all, perhaps someone still always view this thread...

Just informing what maybe important:

Ardour can running with Puppy Linux, and that was Ardour 2.3 on Puppy Linux 4.1.2.
I use such Ardour (and all its dependencies) in debian package that mainly compiled for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy and just running well with Puppy Linux 4.1.2.
I even just distribute Puppy 4.1.2 Live CD with Ardour + qjackctl for Indonesian Musicians.

These are many reasons for some musicians looking for Ardour compiled/installed on "MINI LINUX DISTRO", and they were even wanna buy it with proper price of course.

I still do not think there is much point running Ardour on puppy as it does not have a low-latency kernel.

If the PC is good enough I would use musix, for older PC's I would use dyne:bolic (which I have used on a PIII with 500MB of RAM). Both of these also have plenty of LADSPA effects, Hydrogen drum machine & audio editors as well.