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

[Antoine Villeret]

hi all,

I used Windows first when I was young, I switched to Mac OS for the
Coreaudio performance and because Apple's laptop were the only I known to
have a powered firewire plug.
Now and since i'm using pd (I worked with MaxMSP before) I'm on Ubuntu.
I'm quite satisfied except for the driver availability (I have to wait one
year before having a touchpad driver)
We (A friend of mine on this list... and me) have made a custom distro we
use in all of our projects.
It's based on Ubuntu and works well.
The only cons is the bad optimus support (it often crashes with Gem) but
this only affects laptop.

But a benchmarking test made on the same MacPro machine shows that Pd with
Gem runs twice time faster on Ubuntu than on Mac OS X.
We used it for a dynamic mapping system with only 16ms latency (one image).
And the latency was due to video projector, not to Pd itself.

Moreover the only good thing I see on apple computer is the strong
formfactor they use and the quality of the components inside.
But for less money you can have the same components in an heavier case but
without to pay for Mac OS X licence.

But this is only my point of view....

Cheers

Antoine



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2013/6/2 Gerhard Lang <lang.gerhard at gmail.com>

> 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<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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