[pmoriarty]

There are some Linux distros, like AVLinux[1], which do all the heavy lifting for you.

Just boot in to them and you've got Ardour, JACK, Hydrogen, and a whole ton of other music apps all ready to use.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVLinux

[spacemanmatt]

That would have been really nice 9 years ago when I was trying to assemble a linux based DAW. I might check it out one of these days.