Hmm, hmm. That means switching to Fedora, right?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/13 Bernardo Barros <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com">bernardobarros2@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Planet CCRMA offers rt-kernel for x86_64 systems. Give it a try.<br>
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2010/9/13 András Murányi <<a href="mailto:muranyia@gmail.com">muranyia@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, jm jones <<a href="mailto:juanmjv@gmail.com">juanmjv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi, usually I install the 64 bits version of, but the last time, I<br>
>> dont remember why : ) (maybe to avoid any problems) I installed the 32<br>
>> bits version of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Is a repo of pd-extended for 10.04<br>
>> available?<br>
>> And about the 32 vs 64 bits, what are your choices? And what about<br>
>> distros? Pure:dyne seems more lightweight with his xfce desktop,<br>
>> however I have a good processor (core 2 duo intel e7200) and 2gb of<br>
>> ram, planning an update to 6gb, so I dont know if xfce is a must for<br>
>> me.<br>
>> Im a "veteran" gnu/linux user, but the last years I was using OS X and<br>
>> W7 for music making. In Linux I want to use pd, Renoise (its available<br>
>> as 64 bits too), and wine for some vsts.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Hi There,<br>
><br>
> I'm sort of a veteran too (started on IBM AIX in 1992, used Red Hat for a<br>
> long time, then went back to Windows 98, later XP, which i gave up finally a<br>
> few years ago).<br>
> I'm using vanilla Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with Gnome (and 2GB of memory), and my<br>
> impression is that it's not the WM that makes things slow, but in the case<br>
> of Pd, it's Pd itself. Read the archives on GUI<->core communication and<br>
> Tcl/Tk weirdnesses. The 64-bit version of Pd is quite tidy now, well<br>
> actually there was a time when it seemed to me a bit slower than the 32-bit<br>
> version, but AFAIK there's no reason for that any more (?)<br>
> With a decent CPU and that huge amount of RAM you (will) have, it really<br>
> cannot be a question of WM whatsoever. Of course, the system has to be tuned<br>
> for realtime, undisturbed audio usage, which may include getting rid of<br>
> eye-candy functions, but i never experienced a problem with those. After<br>
> all, they use openGL, don't they?<br>
> The same stands for pure:dyne; at the core it's a linux kernel, and what you<br>
> install on (or remove from) the top, it's up to you.<br>
> The only thing i'm missing here on 64-bit is the RT kernel. Once i find a<br>
> nice quick way, i'll grab it, but i'm not really into home-brewing my<br>
> kernel. :)<br>
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