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

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

hi there, as I said, had no pen drive to test shumamis as they pointed,
then I burned several discs (not only shumamis distro) and none would boot.

but as it turns out, my SD card on a USB adaptor works as a pen drive, so I
tried burning it as required and IT WORKED...

It booted, and went into a Live CD action right from the SD-USB to my
Macbook air.

I am actually writing this email from Shumamis.

Thanks!!!

trackpad seems to respond weird, keyboard not configured right, but other
than that, it fucking works!

Got excited...

will try to sort the booting system correctly as you pointed. That sounded
a bit complicated, but for the best.

Seems I will finally try out Live Electronics Performance from Pd in Linux,
haha

Cheers

2013/5/30 Esteban Viveros <emviveros at gmail.com>

> Maybe I can be wrong, but to work with pd in realtime performances you
> will need a kernel patched with rt features. At least low-latency kernel.
>
> I'm start to do a little distro (Ubuntu 12.04.2 based) it in portuguese.
> You can try it. Shumamis Linux Light have included with qtractor  DAW and
> Ardour 3 is very easy to install.
> http://shumamisll.tumblr.com/
>
> This distro is a remaster of a DreamStudio:
> http://www.dickmacinnis.com/dreamstudio/
>
> If you don't like Unity windows manager, you can use KXstudio:
> http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net/
>
> All these distros use KXStudio repositories, and have low-latency kernels
> preconfigured.
> If you need a realtime kernel, you can install easily. All these 3 distros
> are Ubuntu 12.04 LTS based.
>
> With Jack, at now, I don't have problems using Shumamis Linux Light.
>
> Regards
>
>
> 2013/5/30 Alexandre Torres Porres <porres at gmail.com>
>
>> > One very big advantage on Linux is
>> > the possibility to run Pd with hassle-free jack
>>
>> I'm ok with soundflower for that matter, although jack is more powerful
>> than soundflower...
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/30 Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>
>>
>>> On 30/05/13 22:43, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can't comment extensively on that. I use Pd on Linux, used it on windows
>>> and once on OSX.
>>>
>>> One very big advantage on Linux is the possibility to run Pd with
>>> hassle-free jack, in turn easy multichannel.
>>> Not only - jack means you can directly record into a DAW (e.g. Ardour),
>>> again with multiple 'virtual' channels if you want.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure about insane values, but I'm happy with debian now. Although I
>>> do very little live stuff these days. I think Pd-extended development is
>>> mostly done on debian, but I may be wrong on that.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can't comment on those.
>>>
>>> Lorenzo.
>>>
>>>
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