Hello Dean, > The posts on Linrad were not very positive.... mostly about huge amounts > of crashing at random. Please tell me where you found those posts. There is a Linrad mailing list on which I expect feedback. There are few reports on "crashing at random" - and all bugs that have been reported so far have been fixed.
Linrad supports a huge number of hardware platforms and I am sure there are bugs - but I can not fix them unless someone would point me to the problem. > > Linrad is multi-OS, it runs under [junkdows], MAC OSX and PC-BSD also, > > but there is no need for you to bother about that. Linux is the OS where > > development is done. > > Well as above I've not read positive things... and supporting non Linux > is a huge strike against it..things tend to eventually start to creep to > support only junkdows.... The Linux vs Windows discussion often takes ugly forms. Surely the philosophy of open vs proprietary is VERY different, but when it comes to system performance differences are actually very small. For sound systems one would have to compare Linux ALSA to Windows WDM-KS, WASAPI or ASIO. Things like MME or direct sound are much worse than Pulseaudio. I have recently found a case where operating systems really differ. Late Linux kernels like Debian Sid (unstable) perform significantly better than Windows or earlier Linux like Debian wheezy (stable) in certain situations of high CPU load. I think it is about different strategies for CPU speed and scheduling. Problems occur if several threads need nearly 100% of a CPU while a couple of threads need less than 50%. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsnRrzyeRg > All replies should be Linux centric. As I don't use anything but a real > OS. This is a mailing list. Replies are not only for you and to the extent that information about other operating systems is relevant to the subjects you bring up I think replies should also include non-Linux information. Regards Leif
