subnotebook/netbook w/ linux 4 electronic music?

[Tony Hardie-Bick]

"Marc Nostromo [M-.-n]" <marc.nostromo at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I've spent the last 4 years building a realtime/safety-critical OS
>> framework for trains, using busybox, and I really don't understand
>the
>> question .. busybox doesn't care about the realtime features of the
>kernel
>> you're using, unless I've missed something .. ?
>>
>
>I'm sure you didn't but I did.. I still have a hard time drawing the
>line
>between boundaries of the various part of distributions.
>
>
>> But yeah, a Linux-RT kernel + base system (I wouldn't use busybox
>though)
>> *IS* a good environment for a hardware synth.
>>
>>
>what would you go for ? I'm writing a new framework for "modular" synth
>and
>would like to port it to a low latency/fast boot distribution.
>Something
>like under a second to boot.
>
>Huge bonus if it doesn't take a year to scratch my head on "how do I do
>that" ? ^^

Use SC Marc

Tony (HB)