St?phane Letz wrote:
> 
> Le 23 mars 09 ? 18:34, Rafael Vanoni a ?crit :
> 
>> St?phane Letz wrote:
>>> JACK is system for handling real-time, low latency audio (and MIDI). 
>>> It runs on GNU/Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows (and can be 
>>> ported to other POSIX-conformant platforms). It can connect a number 
>>> of different applications to an audio device, as well as allowing 
>>> them to share audio between themselves. Its clients can run in their 
>>> own processes (ie. as normal applications), or can they can run 
>>> within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support for 
>>> distributing audio processing across a network, both fast & reliable 
>>> LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.
>>> Future JACK2 will be based on C++ jackdmp code base. Jack 1.9.2 is 
>>> the "renaming" of jackdmp and the result of a lot of developments 
>>> started after Linux Audio Conference 2008.
>>> Jack 1.9.2 is the first version of the JACK2 serie to support 
>>> Solaris. It is currently distributed as a source package, to be 
>>> compiled and installed on the target machine. It has been tested on 
>>> recent OpenSolaris 2008.11 and Solaris 10 systems. The audio 
>>> "backend" is using the OSS 4 API.
>>> JACK home page: http://jackaudio.org/ and http://trac.jackaudio.org/
>>> Web page for JACK2 : http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jackdmp.html
>>> Source code only, mainly for Linux and Solaris users:
>>> http://www.grame.fr/~letz/jack-1.9.2.tar.bz2
>>> Solaris version has been funded by the french radio RTL, in the 
>>> process of developing their future digital radio.
>>> Stephane Letz
>>
>> That's great news. Do you know if RTL is planning on porting Ardour or 
>> some other multitrack/sequencing software to Solaris ?
> 
> RTL? surely not. They use JACK for their internal needs only AFAICS. But 
> since Ardour is mainly POSIX, it should be feasible.

Yes, I'll have a go at sometime this week. I'm sure it's not a new idea,
so if anyone else is interested in porting Ardour, please let me know.

Rafael

> Note that I updated a new package 5 min ago after some last compilation 
> fixes.
> 
> Stephane



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