[LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, here's an excellent read about Kim Casone (of .microsound and this list, too) switching from Mac to Linux: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/ (URL in one line) Great work, Kim! Ciao -- Frank

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread victor
2009 9:41 AM Subject: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux > > Hallo, > > here's an excellent read about Kim Casone (of .microsound and this list, > too) > switching from Mac to Linux: > > http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-m

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hallo, victor hat gesagt: // victor wrote: > I am very happy to see this. One thing I thought was missing > from his text was what did he replace MaxMSP with. I was > wanting to read PD somewhere, but could not find it anywhere. I think, Kim is just not using Max nor Pd anymore in his current wor

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
victor wrote: > I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux circles (at LAC for > instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS, > for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these > days from the proprietary side of things. > A lot of professional studios ch

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Harris
On 5 Aug 2009, at 10:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > victor wrote: >> I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux circles (at LAC for >> instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS, >> for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these >> days from the proprietary si

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Steve Harris wrote: > On 5 Aug 2009, at 10:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> victor wrote: >>> I note, interestingly, that even though in Linux circles (at LAC for >>> instance), people keep mentioning MS Windows as a rival OS, >>> for us it's really Apple and OSX that constitutes competition these >>>

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Florian Schirmer
Hi, On 05.08.2009, at 14:32, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> A lot of professional studios changed from MacOS to Windows and >>> more and >>> more of the professional studios still change from MacOS to Windows. >>> This isn't an opinion by me, but what I hear if I get in contact >>> with >>> people I

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread victor
investing the time of your staff to support a bought closed-source product, you may as well not invest the money too). Victor - Original Message - From: "Ralf Mardorf" To: "victor" Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [LAD] Kim did the sw

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Florian Schirmer wrote: > For OSX the top three are Logic, Live and ProTools. For Windows the > top two are Cubase and Live. Overall there are more OSX than Windows > users, since the switch to Intel based OSX systems the gap is steadily > increasing. Again this depends on which user group and t

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Albert Graef
Frank Barknecht wrote: > here's an excellent read about Kim Casone (of .microsound and this list, too) > switching from Mac to Linux: > > http://createdigitalmusic.com/2009/08/04/linux-music-workflow-switching-from-mac-os-x-to-ubuntu-with-kim-cascone/ > (URL in one line) Yup, that also hit the Sl

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Jens M Andreasen
>From TFA: --8<-- Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check out the pulldown menu next to ‘Sound Events’ at the top of the panel. You will see various acronyms, possibly including cryptic-looking technologies like OSS, ESD, ALSA, JACK, an

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread David Robillard
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > >From TFA: > > --8<-- > Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check > out the pulldown menu next to ‘Sound Events’ at the top of the panel. > You will see various acronyms, possib

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Grammostola Rosea
David Robillard wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > >> >From TFA: >> >> --8<-- >> Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check >> out the pulldown menu next to ‘Sound Events’ at the top of the panel. >> Yo

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Davis
2009/8/5 Grammostola Rosea : > Linux audio is a total mess... a normal human being can't work with pro > audio on Linux, unless he/she spent hours and hours to learn the little > tricks or he has an expert available who helps him... What is the purpose of telling this mailing list this? > I spen

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Malte Steiner
> Linux audio is a total mess... a normal human being can't work with pro > audio on Linux, unless he/she spent hours and hours to learn the little > tricks or he has an expert available who helps him... > > I spent 5 hours last week to help somebody to get his (pro) audio > working on Linux..

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 03:16 AM, David Robillard wrote: On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > From TFA: --8<-- Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check out the pulldown menu next to ‘Sound Events’ at the top of the

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread hermann
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 00:54 +0200 schrieb Malte Steiner: > > Linux audio is a total mess... a normal human being can't work with pro > > audio on Linux, unless he/she spent hours and hours to learn the little > > tricks or he has an expert available who helps him... > > > > I spent 5 ho

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Sorry you got this twice Hermann, I am still used to the reply munging that was gotten rid of some time ago. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:52 PM, hermann wrote: > > Hi > > Yes, I don't understand why people mean linux audio is a mess, last > day's I have setup a new box with debian/sid and it took m

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On 08/06/2009 03:16 AM, David Robillard wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> >>> >From TFA: >>> >>> --8<-- >>> Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check >>> out the pulldown

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Grammostola Rosea wrote: > David Robillard wrote: > >> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> >> >>> >From TFA: >>> >>> --8<-- >>> Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on the Devices tab, and check >>> out the pulldown menu next t

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Paul Davis wrote: > 2009/8/5 Grammostola Rosea : > > >> Linux audio is a total mess... a normal human being can't work with pro >> audio on Linux, unless he/she spent hours and hours to learn the little >> tricks or he has an expert available who helps him... >> > > What is the purpose of t

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Malte Steiner wrote: > People are moaning about Linux Audio for a while but should look at the > other systems, pro audio simply doesnt work on any (operating) system > without some involvement. Hard- and software are now very complex > systems and with all these small problems, its still not th

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 04:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: This is why I know so many people who never ever will use Linux, because of noise like yours Paul. And your point is what exactly? That Paul should give a toss about those people? That he or others on this list should just accept the continual

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Grammostola Rosea
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On 08/06/2009 04:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> >> This is why I know so many people who never ever will use Linux, because >> of noise like yours Paul. >> > > And your point is what exactly? That Paul should give a toss about > those people? That he or others on t

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
hermann wrote: > Hi > > Yes, I don't understand why people mean linux audio is a mess, last > day's I have setup a new box with debian/sid and it took me a half day > to get a full featured rt audio/midi environment on the run. It's like > always in life, if you wont to use a tool, you must know ho

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 05:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: hermann wrote: Hi Yes, I don't understand why people mean linux audio is a mess, last day's I have setup a new box with debian/sid and it took me a half day to get a full featured rt audio/midi environment on the run. It's like always in life, if

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > It seems to me that this attitude comes from a limited understanding > of how the open source community works. It differs to other open source communities, I agree and this might be a problem for me, I agree. But I don't agree that most machines can be set up to be fine

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: > >> It seems to me that this attitude comes from a limited understanding >> of how the open source community works. >> > > It differs to other open source communities, I agree and this might be a > problem for me, I agree. But I don't agree

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > Many people use Linux Audio tools and infrastructure for professional > use everyday. Yes, less than 1% of all users are using Linux and this are many people, because for audio there are more less people than for general usage. And more than 99% people are less than les

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 06:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> Many people use Linux Audio tools and infrastructure for professional >> use everyday. > > Yes, less than 1% of all users are using Linux and this are many > people, because for audio there are more less people than for gene

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > If you don't stop trolling and continually harping on about how you > find Microsoft is easier to work with and Linux Audio has lots of > problems without actually contributing anything useful to advance the > tools that you find so lacking then I'm not the only one who

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 07:01 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> If you don't stop trolling and continually harping on about how you >> find Microsoft is easier to work with and Linux Audio has lots of >> problems without actually contributing anything useful to advance the >> tools that

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread hermann
Am Donnerstag, den 06.08.2009, 12:26 +0200 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > hermann wrote: > > Hi > > > > Yes, I don't understand why people mean linux audio is a mess, last > > day's I have setup a new box with debian/sid and it took me a half day > > to get a full featured rt audio/midi environment on the

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Malte Steiner
Ralf Mardorf schrieb: >>With knowledge you need half a day, for Windows people without knowledge need >>half an hour ;) . This is a wrong, you can be happy to have a basic windows system running in a half hour without drivers and the important security bullshit (because Microsoft cant get their

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Pardon, my English is broken. Which reminds me: * What is your favourite programming language? * What kind of Linux Audio project are you currently spending time upon? /j ___ Linux-audio-dev m

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Malte Steiner wrote: > This is a wrong, you can be happy to have a basic windows system running > in a half hour without drivers and the important security bullshit First: I'm not using Windows. People who do use Windows just take one of those illegal Windows "All In One" media, push a button a

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Pardon, my English is broken. >> > > Which reminds me: > > * What is your favourite programming language? > Assembler for different processors. > * What kind of Linux Audio project are you currently

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Patrick Shirkey
On 08/06/2009 11:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Btw. Patrick, please run ntpdate or sntp, it's hard to puzzle your > replies into the right order. > Gnome issue with time setting... Thanks for pointing it out. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd > Ralf > __

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On 08/06/2009 11:24 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >> >> Btw. Patrick, please run ntpdate or sntp, it's hard to puzzle your >> replies into the right order. >> > > > Gnome issue with time setting... > > Thanks for pointing it out. Phew ;) so you don't get me wrong :). Now

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I never programmed anything for Linux. I'm not able to do it and I don't > have the time to learn it. > > This is really my last reply to this topic, ... Thanks! ___ Linux-audio-dev mailin

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Alex :) I'll take the next bus and will reply to this mail only because of the 68000 issue. alex stone wrote: > [snip] > I owned several variations of boxes including > an Amiga (best midi timing on the planet), and my much cherished but > now dead Fairlight. > I started with the C64 and

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> This is really my last reply to this topic, ... >> > > Thanks! Sorry, it wasn't ;). because I haven't seen one mail and because I love the MC68000 processor. But I'll shut up now :), for this topic. ___ Linux-audio-dev m

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread David Robillard
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 14:07 +0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: > > On 08/06/2009 03:16 AM, David Robillard wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 21:53 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > > > > >From TFA: > > > > > > --8<-- > > > Go to System->Preferences->Sound, click on

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread David Robillard
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 11:43 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Paul Davis wrote: > > 2009/8/5 Grammostola Rosea : > > Maybe Kim is precisely representative of the sort of the user LAD-ers > > are interested in. Maybe not. What purpose does your email serve? Do > > you think that anyone on this list is no

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread David Robillard
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:03 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Pardon, my English is broken. > > Which reminds me: > > * What is your favourite programming language? > * What kind of Linux Audio project are you currently spending time upon

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
David Robillard wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:03 +0200, Jens M Andreasen wrote: >> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 13:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> Pardon, my English is broken. >> Which reminds me: >> >> * What is your favourite programming language? >> * What kind of Linux Audio project are you cu

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread victor
>> Hehe... does mailman support an entrance examination? :) > > i guess majordomo is what you're looking for :-D > Aka the Butler... Jeeves ;) Sorry, I couldn't resist. It's August. V ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.or

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
>> entrance examination? :) >> I subscribed to the list, because I needed some information when I tried to program for Linux audio. I guess you want people to learn how to program for Linux audio. What you're looking for is an attitude test, not a test about programming knowledge. I've go

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread David Robillard
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 23:47 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> entrance examination? :) > >> > > I subscribed to the list, because I needed some information when I tried > to program for Linux audio. I guess you want people to learn how to > program for Linux audio. What you're looking for is

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> What we're looking for is less completely irrelevant noise like this. > Particularly in response to jokes (blatant smileys and all). > > Honestly... There's a difference between scorn and joke. ___ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.li

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-06 Thread Paul Davis
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Maybe he just replied to another mail and wanted to point out some problems > that are the cause, that there are so less people using Linux real-time > audio. I guess a developers list isn't a bad place to do it. > I don't have the impression th

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Christian
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a funny story to this: Some weeks ago I jammed with a friend, a convinced osx user, at home. My all purpose notebook was running with openoffice firefox and thunderbird and eclipse as I worked with it before, so there was a first strange look from

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Kjetil S. Matheussen
David Robillard: >> Let's just fix the interaction between pulse and jack and be done with >> it. > > That is one solution. > >> It's harmful to suggest that it things are less than they are > > Read the user posts in this thread, or ths post that started it. Things > are as they are. Pretending

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread David Robillard
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:02 +0200, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote: > Well, in my opinion, everything really is fantastic right now. [...] > A person coming directly from win/mac probably wouldn't have > succeeded though, since jack needed to be configured and > I had to manually install the pulseaudi

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
2009/8/6 Grammostola Rosea : > I don't know if I can really recommend Linux for pro audio to normal > human beings... at least I should say, you need a lot of time, not easy > give up on things and a lot of patience... How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? -Chuckk -- ht

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Just two observations, only generally related: If you have an OSX system without the installation discs, and you want to install a free C/C++ compiler, the *only* way I have found is with a download of several hundred MB from the official OSX website with *lots* of extra stuff, examples, docs, dev

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Jens M Andreasen
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? According to Apple marketing research, about 10% of perfectly normal human beings plays an instrument - mostly either guitar or keyboard - and would also like to use their

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jens M Andreasen wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? > > According to Apple marketing research, about 10% of perfectly normal > human beings plays an instrument - m

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-07 Thread Thomas Vecchione
Damn Reply-To-All, yet again. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Thomas Vecchione wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Chuckk Hubbard > wrote: > >> I guess my thought was that people who want to use audio >> professionally are less likely to make decisions based on what >> requires the leas

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-08 Thread David Robillard
On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 03:40 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jens M > Andreasen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > > >> How much do normal human beings need pro audio production tools? > > > > According to Apple marketing resea

Re: [LAD] Kim did the switch to Linux

2009-08-11 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 7:49 PM, David Robillard wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 03:40 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jens M >> Andreasen wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 20:10 +0300, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: >> > >> >> How much do normal human beings need pro aud