[linux-audio-user] Fedora 6 x86_64 short report

[Arnold Krille]

Hi,

2007/1/14, lanas <lanas at securenet.net>:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:11:50 +0100
> "Arnold Krille" <arnold.krille at gmail.com> hat geschreibt:
> > 2007/1/13, lanas <lanas at securenet.net>:
> > >   Here are my results/impressions after trying Fedora 6.
> > >   Here's the machine
> > >     AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
> > Well, congrats!
> > But: Why is it such a surprise to have these things going on a
> > (mostly) uncustomized installation?
> This is because I used to run CCRMA (32 bits) before and it needed
> another kernel than the one given with Fedora 5.  Well, since many
> years I hear about the need to have real-time specs to run audio apps.
> Same with window managers: a lean one is better than KDE for audio
> applications.
> Well, today I used the fancy Beryl with KDE and I had the water effect
> (shift F9) running all the time and rotating the cube while Seq24 was
> playing lots of notes using Zyn and qsynth and Hydrogen.
> It means that it is now possible to have fancy 3D desktop
> managers/effects while still doing audio work and that, without having
> a patched, specially installed kernel.  The days of running Window
> Maker with a highly patched kernel are over.  And with the price of 64
> bits machines going down, it'll just get better.
> So you see, this is were the surprise comes from.

Okay, now I understand.

> It could very well be that Windows does 10 times more than that, but
> I'm very proud of running such a performant, free, open source, Linux
> system.

Hehe, I am not one of the windows-can-do-better-guys. Even worse,
there isn't a windows-version for 64bit, at least not in the
affordable range and usable for low-latency-audio. And I am pretty
sure it still carries enough 32bit- and maybe even 16bit-code with it
to stay backwards compatible...

Have fun with your new system. And _if_ problems arise, don't listen
to people telling you to go back to 32bit linux. Instead bug the
authors to fix there apps...

Arnold

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