yes, planet_ccrma is a repo for the Fedora/CentOS/RedHat family I like it 2010/9/13 András Murányi <[email protected]>: > Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right? > > 2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <[email protected]> >> >> Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try. >> >> 2010/9/13 András Murányi <[email protected]>: >> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones <[email protected]> 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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