[Ardour-Users] Ardour 2.8.5 released

[Ross Johnson]

Thomas Vecchione wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:34 PM, John Rigg <au at jrigg.co.uk 
> <mailto:au at jrigg.co.uk>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 05:05:08PM -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
>     > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:52 PM, John Rigg <au at jrigg.co.uk
>     <mailto:au at jrigg.co.uk>> wrote:
>     > > Allen & Heath have already done it with the iLive series.
>     > >
>     > Close but not quite.  The iLive consoles run on COS, not Linux.
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>     Hmm, I based that on this comment from Michael Palmer, A&H national
>     sales manager for USA: "the Allen & Heath iLive uses Linux as its
>     operating
>     system"
>     It's near the bottom of this linked page:
>     http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?t=msg&th=34589/0/
>     <http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php?t=msg&th=34589/0/>
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> http://www.ilive-digital.com/downloads.htm
>
> You will notice the link to download eCOS on that page in fact;)
>
> Many people do confuse eCOS and Linux, as some of eCOS's design 
> decisions were based off Linux early on IIRC, but they are two 
> definitly two different OSes.
This could be because eCOS was created by Cygnus Solutions, which was 
later bought out by Redhat. So it's a [free] Redhat product now.

http://sourceware.org/

[That's a Redhat hosted web site]