grant centauri said : > > > > slower to boot or respond, or load app? > > > > load apps. after playing a bit it was fine. just the initial menu loading > seemed slow, but there's a lot of stuff there. nothing out of the ordinary, > its actually been a while since i've run puredyne live USB, i've been using > puppy which loads everything to ram, so its snappy.
You can do the same with Puredyne but it's off by default because it requires quite some RAM for a full CD/DVD or key. Maybe we should add a boot entry for it? > > BTW, I test isos with virtualbox-ose, it works nicely. > > > > > i'll check it out. debian-live suggested qemu/kvm so i've been using that, > also trying to boot directly from the USB to test it rather than reboot. > that may have issues. > > fluidsynth is primarily for hosting soundfonts and has Qsynth as a nice > GUI. apparently timidity does the same thing, so either is fine. I've > found some pretty decent sample sets of acoustic instruments that are nice > to use in conjunction with rosegarden or some other sequencer for more > traditional composition. Its one of the areas I'm interested in, combined > with lilypond one could have a fairly high quality composition studio. > Maybe the subject for a branch? nah, we should just provide it because ... > I think fluidsynth/qsynth is pretty small so it might be worth including if > its not a hassle. I think it was on the original puredyne I used, back in > the green days. not a major issue though ... indeed it was already there. See next mail. > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne a. -- http://su.kuri.mu --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
