Linux laptops for playing gigs

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   Anyone else doing this with Winamp or similiar ?

Any benefits doing this, as opposed to '7x64 ?

Will it support additional USB/PCMCIA additional sound card ?

Thinking about buying yet another old DELL 630 laptop (C2D with 64bit support/DDR3), purely for Linux/SOLARIS.

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levyte357 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List The 10,000 Points Club Joined: 10 May 2004 Location: UK, London Status: Offline Points: 11743	Post Options Post Reply Quote levyte357 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Linux laptops for playing gigs Posted: 01 January 2012 at 5:25pm
	Anyone else doing this with Winamp or similiar ? Any benefits doing this, as opposed to '7x64 ? Will it support additional USB/PCMCIA additional sound card ? Thinking about buying yet another old DELL 630 laptop (C2D with 64bit support/DDR3), purely for Linux/SOLARIS.
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soundchippy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Young Croc Joined: 09 September 2011 Location: Tavistock Status: Offline Points: 770	Post Options Post Reply Quote soundchippy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 January 2012 at 6:13pm
	I've not had a problem using a usb sound card with a recent Linux distro (Ubuntu 11.x LTS in particular). Have used "mixxx" to do some rudimentary djing several times in the past without problems. Tbh I would favour it if on low budget seeing as REW is available in linux form now. If it turns out the DCX remote prog works under Wine then all the better! I only use Win7 to run Solidworks atm.