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Ronald Stewart Creative Director Trinity Audio Group Inc. 9854 National Blvd. #322 Los Angeles CA 90034 310-733-9285 [email protected] www.indamixx.com On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Patrick Shirkey < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, August 29, 2010 6:58 pm, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo > > <[email protected] <mle%[email protected]>> wrote: > > > >> The reponses to that post are all very keen on the idea of having > >> the Digidesign software and hardware available for Linux. They are > >> also spot on that once the Digidesign stuff is running on Mac OSX, > >> the move to Linux would be relatively simple. > > > > this whole story seems very unlikely to me. > > > > its *not* simple to port from OS X to Linux. if you use OpenGL that > > helps quite a bit, but the > > audio infrastructure is quite different. > > > > its also ridiculous to comment on OS X "moving away from its Unix > > heritage". OS X is still based on Darwin which is still as close to > > its "unix heritage" (or as far away) as it ever was. > > > > this doesn't mean that i think that they do not have PT running on > > Linux BUT note that Digidesign (the brand is going away, its "Avid" > > more and more) have been using Linux for some of their products for > > some time now. they had a server/FTP product for sharing audio that > > has run on Linux since it was released. > > > > whoever posted this is likely an example of a number of my audio > > engineer friends: they know just enough about computers for their > > knowledge to be dangerous, and confusing. > > > One thing is clear about Avid is that they are in significant financial > trouble and are basically spending all their money on marketing instead of > actually making anything of value anymore. > > That usually signifies a company in significant distress. > > > > -- > Patrick Shirkey > Boost Hardware Ltd. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev >
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