[PD] linux/ppc music distro

[guenter geiger]

A good source for knowing about what officials Debian packages are
available for your architecture is packages.debian.org

e.g. when you go to
packages.debian.org/puredata you will get this:
Package puredata

    * testing (sound): realtime computer music and graphics system
      0.37.cvs-13: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc
    * unstable (sound): realtime computer music and graphics system
      0.37.cvs1-4: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc


This means Pd is available for alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel
powerpc s390 and sparc architecture. You might do the same with other
packages that you are interested in:

packages.debian.org/supercoolider

Package supercollider

    * testing (sound): realtime sound synthesis server and network
language interpreter
      040513-2: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc
    * unstable (sound): realtime sound synthesis server and network
language interpreter
      040513-2: alpha arm hppa i386 ia64 m68k mips mipsel powerpc s390
sparc

I bet most  of the things you are looking for are already there.
The only thing that can not be guaranteed is that it actually works.
This mostly depends on the upstream authors and not on the distro.
This means whatever distro you choose, if you  encounter a problem
*report* it (to the author and to the packager, if you don't know where
the problem comes from).
This is the only way that problems can get fixed and linux/ppc can get as
stable as the i386 version.

Guenter


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> derek holzer hat gesagt: // derek holzer wrote:
>
> > Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote:
> >
> > >i would like to try linux on my powerbook.. i like the looks of those
> > >specialized music distros like demudi.  my experience is mostly with
> > >debian... is there anything like demudi for ppc?  does anybody have any
> > >tips for me while i take the initial plunge?
> >
> > Nothing like Demudi for PPC yet.
>
> Well, there of course is Debian for PPC, and there also are some
> Demudi PPC packages (see
> http://apt.agnula.org/dists/unstable/main/binary-powerpc/Packages.gz),
> although a lot are still missing. But Demudi is growing into a Custom
> Debian Distribution, and indeed Debian has a big collection of powerpc
> packages. (The others you would have to compile on your own,
> Gentoo-style, with "apt-get build"
>
> Ciao
> --
>  Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__
>
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