-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> Nope, there are different variations there as well. A lot of the core >> applications are the same (GNU). It still seems to me that you have not >> yet orientated yourself to the Open Source world. It is complicated, do >> not expect to understand it overnight. It is fundamentally different >> from the way Apple and Microsoft (and most proprietary vendors) work. >> Please have an open mind and start over. > > Pardon, I did program open source around twenty years ago myself. I > programmed a MIDI sound sampler for the C64 and some other MIDI and > audio stuff. There was a big difference for the hardware, it was always > the same, resp. we also developed hardware in the community, but there > was no difference for bug reports, excepted that we don't had the > internet, but the schoolyards. There were "user groups" for the Atari > too. Bashes and flame wars I only know from Linux. And I guess that > those people I really heave troubles with aren't developers, aren't > people that make music them self. By the way, I also programmed for DR > DOS, while I prefered Assembler, for DR DOS I programmed in C. > > I never liked something but open source. There was open source before Linux. > Very true. Flame wars also preceded Linux. BSD by the way, is also older than Linux.
>>> BSD seems to be not convenient for RT audio and the system might fit >> You can pretty much kiss USB and firewire support goodbye. Your support >> device list is also a lot smaller. I have never tried to use a BSD >> machine as a DAW. YMMV. >> >>> more to my nature, but there seems to be more different BSD, than there >>> are Linux distributions (not really). The kernel developers condemn and >>> will found another BSD. >> The main ones are netBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. I think that there may >> be one or two other variants. > > There are a lot > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergleich_von_BSD-Betriebssystemen, but I > don't know any BSD and I never heard that BSD should be fine for music. > I did not know that. I have only ever used FreeBSD and OpenBSD. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJSIplwRXgH3rKGfMRAupzAJ0XxkEZU6lwqm64RPPxe64mLVvV8ACfQsW/ ySll40rfGlFSemCFEXQ8X2c= =et70 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
