<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>She could also run a dual boot with OSX and Debian see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Double_boot_-_Mac_OS_X_.26_Debian <br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>You'd want to recompile a stock kernel on debian to make realtime or lowlatency or you could simply download one as a .deb file.</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Davis
<paul@linuxaudiosystems.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Al Thompson <althompson58@gmail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> linux-audio-user <Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:55 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [LAU] Audio distro for a Macbook pro<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1480369874"><br><br><div class="yiv1480369874gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Al Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:althompson58@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:althompson58@gmail.com">althompson58@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1480369874gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
So a friend of mine at work has decided she wants to check out audio and<br>
MIDI on Linux. BUT, she has a Macbook Pro, and I've never paid any<br>
attention to distros that were for Macs. What's a good audio/MIDI (plus<br>
general purpose) distro that is easy to get running on a Macbook Pro?<br></blockquote><div><br>its hard to see why she would not use OS X on her MBP if audio/midi is the goal. not all, but several of the better FOSS apps are available for OS X, and that only adds to the vastly improved array of FX and synth plugins on OS X.<br>
<br>i appreciate that there may be a principle at work here, but honestly, she'll get more done with OS X unless she is herself a natural tinkerer and/or has "odd" needs (e.g. academic electroacoustic music)<br>
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