11 Oct
2012
11 Oct
'12
4:37 a.m.
On Thu, October 11, 2012 1:18 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Patrick Shirkey
<pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com
Writing off the Linux Audio platform because some companies are making
money out of the tablet boom is a poor decision. It is inevitable that the
Linux desktop is going to run natively on mobile hardware. Look at the
progress that GTK3 and QT developers are making. ARM support has just been
streamlined for the new 3.6 kernel. AMD's HSA platform and Intels medfield
both support Linux and x86 natively.
Sure Android and iOS have a headstart on market penetration but that is
going to change rapidly.
While the rest of the high end multimedia and graphics world has embraced
Linux it seems the audio industry is still catching up.
--
Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd
wrote:
[ ... me talking about tablets .. ]
No doubt about that but tablets suffer from
cooling and energy issues
that
have been solved for many years on desktop and server solutions. Also a
single 64 core machine is going to outperform a render farm of 64
tablets
both on price and efficiency.
Not as portable but portability is not usually a core requirement for
production systems.
sure, but this is not relevant to your question: "What makes the Audio
industry so special that it can ignore the direction that other industries
are moving?"
the problem is that the question is ill-formed. there is no single
direction that other industries are moving in. various companies clearly
think that the tablet has an important role to play in future audio
technology. are they wrong? that question is also ill-formed. you asked
your question no doubt because you perceive many different industries
"adopting" linux in various ways. this is just one of many directions that
many different industries are moving, and they are not all moving in all
of
them. the audio tech industry, like the rest, will pick and choose.
"adoption of linux" is not written in stone, or even on paper, no more
than
"adoption of iOS tablets" is.