Re: [LAD] palm pre [was Re: [ANNOUNCE] Safe real-time on thedesktop by default; Desktop/audio RT developers, read this!]

On 24/6/2009, "Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote: I don't think this adds much to what has been stated by Fons and others, but perhaps it explains a little? I'm not a hardcore audio developer like most of the guys here, but I've been making audio/music/noise, and coding, since the days of 486sx25s and windows 3.1. Back then, and for many years after, it was a real concern to be able to disable as many irrelevant (to audio) processes in the system as possible (as I'm sure you're aware). Now I have a pretty capable system, but when I want to run RT audio apps I still want to disable as many irrelevant processes on the system as I can. For this reason I really dislike the big monolithic desktop environments. There are several applications tied into them (some serious, plain useful, or just fun) which I'd love to have working but which force me to install all sorts of software I really don't want or need - along with all sorts of processes running in the background. So it feels a bit freedom eroding. The choice seems to be between a system which 'just works' but which wastes system resources on things I don't want, or a system which I have to spend hours setting up, constantly have to deal with the idiosyncrasies of, but which is as fast and powerful as it could be. The notions of old, to raise the potential for system resources to be only used for the job at hand (ie audio) are still strongly rooted and people don't like it when they feel their freedom to use systems in this way is threatened by forcing them to install software and have running processes they don't want. James.