The Debian tools make it quite easy and manageable to build your own
kernel. Try that before switching :)
.hc
On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:21 PM, András Murányi wrote:
Ahh, livna....
You know, know that i have convinced my Fedora friends to switch to
Ubuntu, what do I tall them when i go back? :o)
I'll take a look at it, and also at home-brewing a kernel. Maybe
that's the way forward.
Thanks,
Andras
2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <[email protected]>
Then you have to add Fusion free+non-free (maybe livna?) to your
repos.
2010/9/13 András Murányi <[email protected]>:
> 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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Muranyi Andras
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