[PD] Pd on Mac OS X

[Patrick Pagano]

i would love an assessment of how hard it was getting debian to run on  
a mac



On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> On Jun 8, 2004, at 6:57 PM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
>
>> Hallo,
>> Pedro Carneiro hat gesagt: // Pedro Carneiro wrote:
>>
>>> Re: Indeed, although linux is still rather scary for me.
>>
>> It is to everyone. ;) That's part of the fun.
>>
>>> I have some basic knowledge and run a debian server with TWIGGI (
>>> http://www.twiggi.org/ ), but have long been used to the mac os (11
>>> years now). I have tried yellow dog linux on a imac, but it was
>>> really slow. What distro of linux would you recommend for audio?
>>
>> I really don't know much about PowerPC-Linux. Personally I run Debian
>> for years now, and at the Linux Audio Conference I saw at least one
>> Powerbook that was running Debian as well (the one of Stefan
>> "Supercollider" Kersten), so it is at least possible to make Debian
>> work on a Mac.
>>
>> Debian testing/unstable includes a hell of a lot of audio
>> applications, and sooner or later Agnula/Demudi will merge their
>> packages into it, then you will have even more of a choice. Other
>> people I know use Gentoo on PPC. Personally I don't like waiting so
>> much for something to compile, so I'm not very keen of Gentoo. If I
>> want to compile a package I can built with Debian's apt-get easily as
>> well.
>>
>> So if you already have Debian experience, then I'd suggest you stay
>> with it. As soon as you have learned the package tools for a
>> distribution (and decided on a favourite editor) they are pretty much
>> the same.
>
> I use Debian/PPC on my PowerBook G4 800 and its quite a bit faster  
> than MacOS X.  Currently, the only thing I really use Debian for on my  
> PowerBook is for running my instrument:
>
> http://at.or.at/hans/stickmusic/
>
> It works very well for that, very reliable.  While Debian is really  
> great for those who dig into their OS, its not so friendly for  
> novices.  It is definitely very user friendly, but only if that user  
> is an experienced UNIX or GNU/Linux person.
>
> .hc
>
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