Re: [linux-audio-dev] BeOS nowhere, Linux emerging

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] BeOS nowhere, Linux emerging
From: David Olofson (audiality_AT_swipnet.se)
Date: ke tammi  26 2000 - 23:48:56 EST


On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Paul Barton-Davis wrote:
> >> (Logic) is being ported to BeOS now. Some ports of pro audio
> >> software (e.g. Steinberg Nuendo), have been canceled or put on hold
> >> because of Be Inc's new "internet strategy".
>
> >(We'd better work harder then; we're the only hope! ;-)
>
> it will be very interesting to see what Steinberg do. SGI themselves
> are not exactly losing the race to embrace Linux (XFS, and today open
> source for OpenGL), and IRIX was the original *nix platform target for
> Nuendo. It can't be too far from Steinberg's minds that Linux is the
> way to go.

Well, if full lowlatency goes into 2.4, they certainly can't find a
better platform, if they want to release something that's really
professionally useable...

> of course, i would much rather have open-source apps and API's, but i
> have to say that if they released nuendo (or cubase, but that seems
> less likely) next month for linux, it seems likely to me that they
> could save us a lot of work :) i could get back to making music, for
> example, instead of writing audio software :) nah. just kidding.

Yeah, I know. Once a programmer... :-)

But it probably would mean that I get real filsystems on two more
partitions on this machine. :-) And Layla gets dumped, of course...

//David

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