[PD] [OT] slightly: building audio computer with PD

[David Merrill]

The Audiopint project does this - details at audiopint.org if you're
interested. We have a stripped-down Ubuntu image that you can download - it
can be written to a USB flash drive, which the system boots from.
-David

On Jan 4, 2008 11:49 AM, Olivier Heinry <olivier.heinry at manga-burgah.net>
wrote:

> Le Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:28:10 +0100,
> Peter Plessas <plessas at mur.at> a écrit :
>
> > * Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> [2008-01-01 22:18]:
> > > Either way could work, the ramdisk is a particularly good idea. Unless
> > > the installation is networked, there's not too much need for logfiles
> in
> > > the classic server or multiuser environment sort of sense. You could
> > > probably also just disable to logging daemon by removing it from the
> > > boot scripts using rc-update (on Gentoo at least, or with another
> > > distro-specific equivalent). I imagine that logging would simply just
> > > fail quietly if the partition were read-only... I mean, what would log
> > > the fact that the logs weren't logging? ;-)
> >
> > Right, that's a nice point in particular! Thanks for the hints!
> >
>
> You may also use Pure:Dyne, boot from CD, nest to a USB CF media. No HD
> needed.
>
> If you have lots of RAM available and really need to write something, just
> use /dev/shm which is a kind of advanced RAM disk available on most Linux
> distros. Use a bash script to copy video/audio files & patches from the
> CD/DVD to /dev/shm in RAM  at startup and symlink them to your /home or /tmp
>
> ++
>
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