There are so many distros out there for everyone. Musix is one that I use and love personally. It is geared toward musicians and is fantastic for first time recording enthusiasts. This is a live CD and right out of the box, you can start recording your own music for “FREE”. Can’t beat that. Comes installed with Ardour, Hydrogen, Rosegarden,Audacious and everything a professional or beginner needs to record his/her own musical works.

Some Higlights:

• Linux 2.6.29.4 RT ‘full preempt’ ready for low-latency audio operations, either Live or installed in hard disk.

• Custom KDE as default desktop (you can algo run GNOME, IceWM, Fluxbox, LXDE, etc.).

• Based on ‘Debian/Lenny GNU/Linux’, a free software community distribution widely used and recognized worldwide for its reliability, versatility and stability.

• Improved installer

• Improved start system

• Persistent Musix USB version!!! That means you can install applications, change settings, and you will have them in the next boot. It means you can customize.

Here’s the USB distro link >> http://packages.ututo.org/isos/Musix/Musix-20USB.img.bz2

Here is the standard link in DVD format >> http://mirror.zonainter.org/musix/Musix-2.0.iso