On 10/02/2010 10:00 AM, Folderol wrote: > > The bodge I'm currently using is a stripped down minimum debian > squeeze, with none of the gnome rubbish, just startx straight into an > openbox session. > > I then shoehorn in the multimedia kernel from 64studio alpha 3.3. > > This is not a happy marriage! >
What are your talking about? Sounds like in ideal music distribution you have there! Gnome or KDE always seemed to me to be too heavy to be the standard window manager for what is supposed to be a music box, not a desktop. When I gripe about not having up to date packages, I'm not talking about office apps or windows managers. I'm speaking of development packages and up to date multimedia apps. Would you hook up your Korg Oasis to the net and us its UI to write emails? I think perhaps that perhaps a few years ago, home client-server systems were unthinkable because not many people could afford to have multiple computers, and maybe then, a gnome or KDE desktop on a real-time machine might make sense. Granted, the problem is that most music apps for Linux are not client/server. Now, I'm thinking out loud as I'm typing... Yes, that's the whole problem! These days, it is not unreasonable to require that anyone who is really into serious real-time music production will have more than one computer. Even in today's professional music studios that have windows or macs running pro-tools, do you think that these guys use them after-hours to check their emails or what ever? So then why does the music computer (i.e. the real-time instrument) really need to have a GUI at all (at least a desktop one). I mean, isn't the KORG Oasys Linux-based (if not 64studio based)? And I guess the answer is that most of the current linux music apps aren't designed that way. Is this basically what OSC was meant for? Just thinking out loud here.... Larry _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
