<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:18pt">Bravo-<br><br>Succinctly put too. <br><div> John, you have continuously shown a huge amount of insight both technically, and idealogically. <br>My ideal concept of a multimedia environment blessed with full accelerated 3D etc, has been a problem due to several NvidiA related problems, under several distros. (exaple...)<br><br>I have used Debian 64Studio for a while as my princial 'serious' recording environment.<br>(used various RedHat based distros in the past including Mandrake-Driva, as well as early Slackware and more ) <br>The move of 64 studio toward an Ubuntu style package management system has caused formerly available packages to disappear from repros, and be replaced by ?????<br><br>also the folks i know who MUST use Mac are ProTools users, and this is an
industry based conceit that i'll not allow myself.<br><br>Anything is better than running Windows and a huge pile of intivirus clag all the time, so you can choose between immedeiate functionaliy, or eventual perfection.<br><br>I choose the latter all the time. I WAS a Lego influences child once though-<br>;-)<br><br>buyer 'lock-in' is annother conceit i can't abide with.<br>Jack/Ardour and the rest are my future, and i feel free.<br><br>i do wish things would become less flaky in the Ubuntu releases.<br>Nvidia and others can contribute better, but there sre ways around these issues that are easy for Suse users for example.<br><br>i may have to start again in my 'Distro Search'<br>for multimedia use.<br><br>I know i don't need a Mac though!<br><br><br></div>+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=<br><br>David Headon would love you to drop in...<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
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13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> John Emmas <johne53@tiscali.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ardour-users@lists.ardour.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, 23 August, 2009 21:18:39<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Ardour-Users] OSX vs Linu<br></font><br>----- Original Message ----- <br>From: "Thomas Vecchione"<br>><br>> For the record, I strongly disagree with the concept that any distribution<br>> of Linux needs to be a DIY system. That defeats one of the main purposes<br>> of distributions<br>><br>Whether Linux "needs to be" a DIY OS is of course debatable but I'd have to<br>say that I'm with Rob on this one. I described Linux earlier as "high<br>maintenance" but whichever way you dress it up, at this point in time, Linux<br>is not an OS that the average Joe can
install with ease. Things are<br>definitely getting better but there's still a long road ahead.<br><br>My personal view is that driver installtion & configuration remains the<br>greatest bugbear with Linux. Apple has solved this neatly by heavily<br>restricting the user's choice of hardware but Microsoft has the same problem<br>on almost the same scale as Linux. Microsoft's approach has been to unify<br>hardware and software manufacturers with its MSI installation strategy (the<br>ubiquitous "setup.exe" file). Well configured MSI installers have<br>completely removed the pain of installing both drivers and apps under<br>Windows - in particular, eliminating the old problem of "DLL hell" that used<br>to plague Windows users in the days when every manufacturer had its own<br>preferred installation strategy.<br><br>With the increased usage of package managers, installing applications under<br>Linux has become similarly
painless. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said<br>for installing drivers. There are probably as many different strategies as<br>there are driver writers, which is a great letdown. Somebody needs to come<br>up with a solution that unifies them because as long as this problem<br>persists Linux, IMHO, will never be able to shed its 'DIY' image. By hook<br>or by crook, drivers need to become as easy to install as applications have<br>become in recent years.<br><br>John <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ardour-Users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org" href="mailto:ardour-users@lists.ardour.org">ardour-users@lists.ardour.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.ardour..org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-users-ardour.org" target="_blank">http://lists.ardour.org/listinfo.cgi/ardour-users-ardour.org</a><br></div></div></div><br>
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