On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:47:13 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This IS NOT what was asked! > It may be that it is the only answer! > After playing for a week, I think ubuntu is probably a good solution > for someone needing a wife and 2.3 kids. IMHO it is not a good > solution for people wanting to 'work' their computers. eg Q: I want > to do advanced sound card making out A: Not many people have multiple > sound cards ... eg this question I'm a two soundcards, Ubuntu, with wife and single child looking to upgrade to 2.3 kind of guy. Two soundcards because the geniuses (ahem) at Apple decided to ship a laptop with no audio in, and we didn't check this (why would you?) before buying it.
Anyway, in my limited experience, to do any serious audio work in Linux, one needs to spend a solid amount of time setting things up - any distribution. Actually that's true for other platforms, but someone else does that for me... I don't have many (perhaps any) students who could shift over to Linux for their audio work easily yet. It'll come, and hopefully we can all do our bit to get there. The reason I stay with Ubuntu is that more things "just work" than with other distributions I have experienced (Slackware (1996!), RH and Debian). I remember plugging in an ipod with hfsplus formatting and watching it work seamlessly with gtkpod. Converted me on the spot. The current two card thing is a PITA, I'll agree, but a first look at Polypaudio (thanks Jeff) is _very_ encouraging. Oh - needed to add /usr/local/lib to ld.so.conf to get it going but that's another thread isn't it! That was a bit of a rant wasn't it - done now... Denis -- Dr Denis Crowdy Department of Contemporary Music Studies Macquarie University NSW 2109, Australia +61 2 9850 6787; http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au http://home.southernphone.com.au/dcrowdy/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
