Recomend a distro for sound recording/editing

[Red Squirrel]

I know these threads get old but at least I'm asking for a specific purpose and not just "what is best distro?"

At our church we got an AMD 2000+ machine with about 1GB of ram (it's DDR1 ram, so very hard and expensive to get, if it was DDR2 I'd upgrade it) and audigy sound card. We basically use it to record sermons and store them, as well as burn to CD. It's also used for powerpoint but as I understand open office will open power point files.

Right now it has windows 2000 but the C drive is only like 4GB so I'm planing to reinstall windows and resize it, then realized, maybe I can even go Linux.

So what would be a decent distro for this?

Upgrading is an option, but I'm trying to avoid it.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Practically any distro should be able to accomplish all of those requirements (basic sound recorder [too many to name], basic audio editing [audacity], burning digital files onto a cd [k3b/brasero], reading powerpoint files [openoffice impress]).

 

[Red Squirrel]

Would the latest Ubuntu run ok on that system? That's probably the main concern as like you said theres tons of software to use. It's mostly the ram thats the issue. I could always add another drive for strictly swap though, so it could help a bit, as I have a spare 80GB drive at home I don't use for anything.

 

[Christobevii3]

You can run pretty much all you listed with 512MB of ram no problem.

 

[drag]

You want 64Studio!

It's very multimedia oriented. If you ever used Ubuntu before you'll find this is similar since it uses Debian and Ubuntu is Debian-based. One of the nice things about it is that has commercial support options, but is still free software. The big difference between this and Ubuntu or Debian is that this already has everything you'd want.
http://www.64studio.com/

But I recommend strongly that you use Ubuntu or Debian for a while on your personal computer or laptop or whatnot so your familiar with it. I'd hate to see you replace a working system with something you'd have to struggle with before a sermon or whatnot.