21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
3:15 p.m.
On 12/20/06, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 19:39 -0500, Chuckk Hubbard
wrote:
that is true in the general sense that linux will run on h/w that
windows has abandoned.
but its not the case where the problem is that the h/w is relatively
new, the chipset vendor has done nothing to facilitate a linux driver,
and nobody has had the time or motivation to reverse engineer one. this
is true for some significant bits of audio h/w.
Thanks for letting me know about this. Is there documentation about
this somewhere? I've never heard of it before.
I was about to reply that, well, the audio works, it just has dozens
of xruns a second, but then I tried a few things and I actually can't
get a squawk. Pure Data from the Debian repository also gives me
weird bugs when trying to test audio, but I don't know how to check
whether apt is fetching a 64-bit version of it. If not, I might have
to start over, because I updated some critical stuff from the same
repository.
I'm now being told by someone on IRC to try a newer kernel. lol,
maybe 64studio is *worse* than the Debian Etch I overwrote to install
it.
Windows
outperforms Linux on marginal hardware. This will probably
always be the case because such hardware is not designed to be correct,
it's designed to work with Windows.
On good hardware Linux should win.
I heard the opposite, that Linux's advantages are especially
noticeable on less fancy machines. But: