[PD] PD extended, Linux 64 & 32 bits

[András Murányi]

Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right?

2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2 at gmail.com>

> Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try.
>
> 2010/9/13 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones <juanmjv at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last time, I
> >> dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I installed the 32
> >> bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for 10.04
> >> available?
> >> And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices?  And what about
> >> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce desktop,
> >> however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and 2gb of
> >> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a must for
> >> me.
> >> Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using OS X and
> >> W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its available
> >> as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts.
> >>
> >
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red Hat for a
> > long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave up
> finally a
> > few years ago).
> > I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of memory), and
> my
> > impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but in the
> case
> > of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core communication and
> > Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now, well
> > actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower than the
> 32-bit
> > version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?)
> > With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, it really
> > cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system has to be
> tuned
> > for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include getting rid of
> > eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with those. After
> > all, they use openGL, don't they?
> > The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, and what
> you
> > install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you.
> > The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. Once i find a
> > nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into home-brewing my
> > kernel. :)
> >
>
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