Yup, its another one of those storys of a semi-geek who defected to linux..
In this case Fedora.
Microsofts whole racket with the suggish spyware called Vista has put me off completely & i have no intention of ever endorsing them again with my wallet.
Fedora is pretty smart really, did nothing other than install it & it finds my web connection streight away without any configuring …how cool is that !
And the built in messenger has no problem connecting to multiple services ..icq/aol/msn/yahoo/irc …etc.
and of course azureus runs here too, being java and all …throw in open office and you have everything the average non game crazy pc user needs to go about their daily business
Okay now heres the bit that makes this a little more relavent around here ..discovered energyXT Sequencer/DAW program for linux/windows & absolutely love it …astoundingly good ..and it really is being ‘given away’ at the price of £27 odd …after 20 mins with the demo ..i bought it ..no more cubase for me
just switched Ubuntu linux …it runs faster and has alot less bloat. fits on a cd rather than a dvd and can be booted from the install cd, allowing a fully functional os with instant web access ! ..and from within this mode it can be installed to the hard drive …how cool is that ..i cant see a windows installer cd doing that in sometime to come
also fedora is built on redhat, and ubuntu is built on debian i beleive
mikeb: go to ardour.org … you might be well… say… puffed up!
So let’s talk distros… I switched to Gentoo for now maybe two years! I must say it is the best distro i ever ran on! Fast and optimized, because fully build at user-end. It is also the most portable, again because it is build at user-end. The one i will stick on for many many years.
BTW, Gentoo/Linux is also the second OS i chose for the midibox i’m currently designing. I’ve got two 15" touch screen lcds that i will use for it (very good usb support for touch screen in the Linux kernel). So MIOS on one stair, [Mute|Ardour]/Jack/Linux on the other.
I used Fedora a bit before I moved to Tokyo and I loved it. (unfortunately, I installed XP on my laptop to move with me.. simply out of the familiarity of it, and not wanting to go into panic mode far away from my software colletion).
I am particularly interested in music tools quality and integration to Midibox on linux platforms.
When I return, I have a project to build that will integrate the keystation and computer.. I dont want to put XP on it, but the user is familiar with Reason and the like.
The first time I went searching for good linux software, I had no luck, but I didnt exactly know where to look either.
Is there a good Tracktor-esque equivilent on Linux as well?
the only reason i am not into Linux-Audio anymore is because i moved to OSX and that s far the best OSX “ready made” for audio apps at the moment.
Still i use different flavors of Linux in a old PIII desktop i use for internet, writing, trying to mess up everything (Fedora then Suse and finally Ubuntu).
There are specific Distros dedicated to audio/video with low latency Kernel ready to go and support for USB audio etc.
Planet CCRMA is one of the best and they have i cool mailing list full of info.
Agnula DEMUDI is another good one (finally something to be proud of, as italian citizen
.. there are a few more out there and i am planning to create a Linux based Desktop system “a la receptor” to be controlled with my powerbook.Any input is welcome, has anybody stumbled into some similar project? i remember there were some rumours …
And yes i think it is a good idea to promote Linux as audio software (is there any need to promote it as the best “daily use” OS after the Ubuntu CD Installer? how smart is that?) on uCapps.
We can keep this thread open as a start point, i have some experience to share for example.
Then, if your aim is more into NO-windows then YES-Linux you may want to have a look at the osx86 project aka OSX in the latest x86 platforms.Stability mainly depends on the hardware you have installed.
I’m currently running Fedora Core 6 and have been using Fedora for a couple of years (since core 2 if I remember correctly). Before that I used Slackware. Currently I use Rosegarden for my sequencing and multitracking needs. I also use Hydrogen for drum pattern and loop purposes (Rosegarden imports Hydrogen files so that works out well). Occasionally I use Seq24 for building more loop based tracks as well. With that, a couple of Java programs and the fact that I can (happily) run vmidibox64e and mpasm in wine I can’t ever imagine owning a computer without Linux installed. As a matter of fact, I haven’t since 1998.
my only concern is floating point perfomance and an extended 32bit OS with win3.1 DNA wont do the justice. Plus they also guarantee glitch less audio playback, and less/user customized kmixer ( the internal wma resample gross). My favorite PC joke: atreides - linux , ordos - mac, now Im with teh harkonnen, general Ballmer, ahead!!
The test machine specification was based upon our new Element PQ1 with a Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor. The RAM was upgraded to 8GB and the audio drive was upgraded to 1TB RAID0.
You want to see what a rig like that could do using PD etc under Linux?
Not to mention the general bugginess typical of any windows OS pre-SP2 (although lately that could be SP1 given that MS are trying hard to break that rep), lack of driver support for the few upgraded features EG WaveRT, conflicting opinions between developers about whether to support the new GUI (meaning that you can’t tweak it to be optimal because different software on the same box wants a different OS config… blah blah blah…
Dude, Vista is the WinME of this decade.
But obviously you’re keen on it, fair enough, but can you explain what benefit you think you’ll see over XP?
[glitchless] 95% cpu utilisation is not even at the door in XP. I bought a quite expensive (well not quite b/c ebay ;D ) Lynx soundcard with 2 tons of digital I/O, when I use not only a stereo pair that means additional CPU hit. The talk is that it takes yet 6 months to see it working nice, but even then, WaveRT wont turn into ASIO (in terms of spread). Who use it say its already lot more stable than XP was.
Who use it say its already lot more stable than XP was.
Where’d you hear that? I’ve heard just the opposite… My workplace (a big one I can’t name who has testing facilities matched only in maybe three places in the world) has tested it and found that to be far from true…
And if you’re hitting 95% CPU you need an upgrade of hardware not software
Edit: Never mind… This is way off topic and I don’t care to try and help any more. Dive in.
..i cant see a windows installer cd doing that in sometime to come 