[PD] PD extended, Linux 64 & 32 bits

[András Murányi]

Hhh, switching distro seems harder than moving to another country
sometimes... :o)
I heard that some non-free stuff if missing from Fedora, does CCRMA have
these? Like some proprietary codecs, etc...

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

> yes, planet_ccrma is a repo for the Fedora/CentOS/RedHat family
> I like it
>
> 2010/9/13 András Murányi <muranyia at gmail.com>:
> > 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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Muranyi Andras
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