[LAU] Audio distro for a Macbook pro

[chris kennedy]

She could also run a dual boot with OSX and Debian see http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Double_boot_-_Mac_OS_X_.26_Debian    

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.



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 From: Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com>
To: Al Thompson <althompson58 at gmail.com> 
Cc: linux-audio-user <Linux-audio-user at lists.linuxaudio.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [LAU] Audio distro for a Macbook pro
 




On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Al Thompson <althompson58 at gmail.com> wrote:

So a friend of mine at work has decided she wants to check out audio and
>MIDI on Linux.  BUT, she has a Macbook Pro, and I've never paid any
>attention to distros that were for Macs.  What's a good audio/MIDI (plus
>general purpose) distro that is easy to get running on a Macbook Pro?
>

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.

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)

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