[linux-audio-user] Preach it! [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Behringer etc.]

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 18:17, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > 1) second the validity of your statements regarding OS representation
> > > > (LAU is a pretty insular community, sometimes it feels bigger than it
> > > > is)
> > >
> > > Sadly it's exactly the opposite.
> > 
> > Bottom line, these companies are not stupid.  They know where the money
> > is, and it ain't on LAU.  If it were, they'd be here too.
>
> Yep...however the smart ones look for ways to both incrementally
> increase revenue, and then also to create revolutionary changes. I
> keep thinking that one of these days Digi will come out with a closed
> system that is Linux based and includes the PC itself. Incrementally
> it wouldn't cost them all that much to add a PC to some unit like the
> 002 Rack. Most users would use external audio drives so internal
> storage requiremments aren't that high. They'd have control of the OS
> and it would be stable.
> 
> For the last 6 months PTLE users have been caught in a bind. No PTLE
> versions run on XP Service Pack 2 so all PTLE systems have to stick
> with a bad version of Windows that isn't getting updates. I'm scared
> to do much on the net with my PTLE machine. I don't know why Digi
> hasn't fixed this. I guess it's hard. The plugin vendors have told us
> their plugins aren't stable on SP2 either, so it's a mess.

Same on the OSX world, AFAIK, PT does not run on the latest versions. 
-- Fernando