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

[Alexandros Drymonitis]

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Gerhard Lang <lang.gerhard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>

Checked the video and found this blog as well
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/08/how-to-dual-boot-linux-on-your-mac/
My issue is that my CD reader is broken and both links mention that you
need to burn Ubuntu on a CD. Can you still go through this process with a
USB stick instead?

>
>
>> 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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