Hi Tyler, Excuse me for hijacking your thread somewhat:
Have you managed to install? I couldn't get the shortcut to respond, though it runs nice off usb for me too. I'm not involved in packaging pure data at all but my gut feelings are that: 1. Running vanilla allows for a quicker update cycle. 2. Less bloat. 3. My preference is that vanilla is more aesthetically pleasing somehow. 4. Historic reasons: pde was far less stable a few years ago, plus had problems with some libraries and objects not loading - nameclashes etc. Indeed it's still the case with some libs in pde now (vbap springs to mind). Pd comes with what the devs believe are the most useful libs with many extra just waiting to be added to the .pdrc. Of course any extra libs you need can be compiled quite easily for pd but some of them can be tricky - I attempted to install 'cyclone' a few months ago and just gave up when it became a PITA. One final thought, and it's something I have never heard anyone discuss at all but I have wondered about: Is there some Euro-centric thing that vanilla is somehow 'cooler' (for want of a better word) than pde?:) I recently ran a project on pde and have since installed pddp into my machine. So much better set of help files I think. All good wishes, Julian On 23 June 2011 23:33, Tyler Leavitt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello list, > > So I'm writing this on a first boot of Puredyne 10.10 DVD-i386 alpha-4 > live. Everything looks great... unetbootin installed it flawlessly and it > booted nice and quick. Now to install... > > My question, however, is regarding the relation between the Puredata that > comes with pure:dyne and Pd-extended. What are the differences between the > two as far as externals that are packaged? Is there a reason you don't just > supply pd-extended? Or is it the pure:dyne version just pd-extended with the > older branding? > > Thanks, > Tyler > > --- > [email protected] > http://identi.ca/group/puredyne > irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne >
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