Hhh, switching distro seems harder than moving to another country sometimes... :o) I heard that some non-free stuff if missing from Fedora, does CCRMA have these? Like some proprietary codecs, etc...
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <[email protected]> > 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. :) > >> > > > > > > -- Muranyi Andras
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