On Sun, August 29, 2010 6:58 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
> <
mle+la@mega-nerd.com> wrote:
>
>> The reponses to that post are all very keen on the idea of having
>> the Digidesign software and hardware available for Linux. They are
>> also spot on that once the Digidesign stuff is running on Mac OSX,
>> the move to Linux would be relatively simple.
>
> this whole story seems very unlikely to me.
>
> its *not* simple to port from OS X to Linux. if you use OpenGL that
> helps quite a bit, but the
> audio infrastructure is quite different.
>
> its also ridiculous to comment on OS X "moving away from its Unix
> heritage". OS X is still based on Darwin which is still as close to
> its "unix heritage" (or as far away) as it ever was.
>
> this doesn't mean that i think that they do not have PT running on
> Linux BUT note that Digidesign (the brand is going away, its "Avid"
> more and more) have been using Linux for some of their products for
> some time now. they had a server/FTP product for sharing audio that
> has run on Linux since it was released.
>
> whoever posted this is likely an example of a number of my audio
> engineer friends: they know just enough about computers for their
> knowledge to be dangerous, and confusing.