<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">2015-01-05 15:44 GMT+01:00 Brent Busby </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:brent@keycorner.org" target="_blank">brent@keycorner.org</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Mon, 5 Jan 2015, Raffaele Morelli wrote:<br>
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anyone using FreeBSD for audio stuff? I've installed latest release as guest os using qemu and just wondering if porting of ardour and other audio stuff has been done by someone else and if it's worth.<br>
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They have Ardour.  They just dont have Alsa, or a kernel that's any good for realtime.  And this is coming from a FreeBSD fan.<br></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline">​alsa is there​ and compiling a kernel it's not that hard</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;display:inline"><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html">https://www.freebsd.org/ports/audio.html</a></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​they don't have a port for ardour3​ yet</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
It's a shame...  With the various creations of Lennart Poettering coming from RedHat these days (PulseAudio, systemd, etc.), Linux is getting more wacky by the year.  BSD might be a refuge from the madness if they were more desktop oriented.</blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">​apt-get purge pulseaudio systemd</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">apt-get​ install sysvinit</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">/raffaele</div><br></div></div><br></div></div>