Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right? 2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <bernardobarr...@gmail.com>
> Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try. > > 2010/9/13 András Murányi <muran...@gmail.com>: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones <juan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last time, I > >> dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I installed the 32 > >> bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for 10.04 > >> available? > >> And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices? And what about > >> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce desktop, > >> however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and 2gb of > >> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a must for > >> me. > >> Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using OS X and > >> W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its available > >> as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts. > >> > > > > Hi There, > > > > I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red Hat for a > > long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave up > finally a > > few years ago). > > I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of memory), and > my > > impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but in the > case > > of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core communication and > > Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now, well > > actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower than the > 32-bit > > version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?) > > With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, it really > > cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system has to be > tuned > > for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include getting rid of > > eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with those. After > > all, they use openGL, don't they? > > The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, and what > you > > install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you. > > The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. Once i find a > > nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into home-brewing my > > kernel. :) > > > >
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