Re: [Consortium] Flagship Midas console runs Linux

Fons Adriaensen wrote: yeah, they are running dsp boards, so the actual guts of the system won't have much to do with linux, at least not where it's interesting (signal processing, realtime scheduling). but actually, i don't care what does the heavy lifting under the hood. the big breakthrough is that these guys are advertising their use of linux as a selling point. that's so great, for all i care they could be doing their dsp on NT5 long as they don't tell anyone >:-> jokes aside, it would be even greater if such a professional piece of gear was using the same infrastructure (generic CPUs and JACK) that we use in our daily work, but it's good news nonetheless. i wish midas lots of luck with their new product. it does look cool. if you look closely at one of their photos, you'll see a window with "AUX 52" in red. wow :) 52 auxes. does that get you as many chicks as the old midas behemoths with the VU meter bridge? ;) -- jörn nettingsmeier home://germany/45128 essen/lortzingstr. 11/ http://spunk.dnsalias.org phone://+49/201/491621 Kurt is up in Heaven now.