[PD] linux best for pd? / "best linux" for Pd? / On a Mac?

[Gerhard Lang]

Sorry, I did not read your post attentively to the end. So please take 
my post as an ot-statement about pd on pc.
regards

Am 02.06.2013 00:32, schrieb Alexandros Drymonitis:
> I'm invading this thread with a question that might have an obvious 
> answer...are you using boot camp to part your hard drive and install 
> Linux? All documentation of it mentions only Windows..
> Is it the same or do you need to do something else?
>
http://freemp3x.com/dual-boot-how-to-dual-boot-mountain-lion-and-ubuntu-mac-and-linux-mp3-download.html
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres 
> <porres at gmail.com <mailto:porres at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > pd (and all other audio processing) without jack is no go for me.
>
>     ok, since I'm completely unaware of anything, can you tell me more
>     about the dependency of audio to jack in linux? And can't jack be
>     installed in any distro anyway?
>
http://jackaudio.org/
>
>     thanks
>
>     2013/5/31 Gerhard Lang <lang.gerhard at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lang.gerhard at gmail.com>>
>
>         I'm on ubuntustudio 13.04 and kxstudio 12.04.1, 64bit. But
>         only pd-l20rk runs to my satisfaction. All other pd variants
>         make troubles with toggling dsp here on different  stationary
>         machines and laptops. pd (and all other audio processing)
>         without jack is no go for me.
>
>         Am 30.05.2013 <tel:30.05.2013> 22:43, schrieb Alexandre Torres
>         Porres:
>
>             Hi there, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems Pd runs
>             smoother in Linux than in any other OS, is that right?
>
>             Perhaps some of you have run benchmarks for it with the
>             same machine and diferente Operational Systems. I was
>             curious to try myself.
>
>             Now, is there a "best linux" for Pd? Maybe one that allows
>             you to tweak in a little more to have insanely low latencies?
>
>             Yeah, the whole point and interest is to try and reach an
>             absurdly optimized latency and CPU load.
>
>             Now that I got myself a Raspberry Pi (my first linux) I
>             wanna enjoy the opportunity/motivation to broaden my linux
>             usage to my regular laptops.
>
>             I use macs by the way. Don't know if that is an issue.
>             Like being next to an impossible task to install a nice
>             hardcore ("the best one") linux distribution in it.
>
>             I've seen that recently Linux has been able to work
>             (poorly at least) with Thunderbolt. I have an RME
>             Multiface that seems to works well on linux. Since newer
>             macbooks lost the PCI slot, all that I'm missing is that
>             my thunderbolt to PCI slot  adapter works in Linux. That'd
>             be cool, to run it on my macbook air, on linux... but I
>             digress.
>
>             Thanks
>             Cheers
>
>
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