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Hi there, I want to make a music player based on Linux. Playing audio is all it'll ever do, tho obviously i will want a screen. As a result I'm looking for a distro that boots extremely fast, can use touch, and has decent ALSA compatibility. Disk space, system specs etc will be fairly good, all that's necessary is that it boots like lightning and can do everything i need it to with audio. Touchscreen is a bonus. Any ideas?

rokytnji

You will have to install a music player and touchscreen yourself but you could start out with

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...tion/MinimalCD

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ozar

Welcome to the forums!

You can find some mini linux distros here:

Mini Linux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I've never chosen a distro just for audio, so can't really recommend any certain distribution. Let us know what you go with and how it works out for you.

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For multimedia you could have a look at DYNE:BOLIC.

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Thanks everyone! I'll try Damn Small for now. Let you know how I get on

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Just thought - I'd like to use four drive RAID 10, what's my best option? I'd like to just use software RAID for cost reasons but will that be possible on a minimalist distro? and what's low-cost RAID-card support like on these distros?
Cheers