On Sun, August 29, 2010 6:58 pm, Paul Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
> <mle+la@email-addr-hidden-nerd.com> wrote:
>
>> The reponses to that post are all very keen on the idea of having
>> the Digidesign software and hardware available for Linux. They are
>> also spot on that once the Digidesign stuff is running on Mac OSX,
>> the move to Linux would be relatively simple.
>
> this whole story seems very unlikely to me.
>
> its *not* simple to port from OS X to Linux. if you use OpenGL that
> helps quite a bit, but the
> audio infrastructure is quite different.
>
> its also ridiculous to comment on OS X "moving away from its Unix
> heritage". OS X is still based on Darwin which is still as close to
> its "unix heritage" (or as far away) as it ever was.
>
> this doesn't mean that i think that they do not have PT running on
> Linux BUT note that Digidesign (the brand is going away, its "Avid"
> more and more) have been using Linux for some of their products for
> some time now. they had a server/FTP product for sharing audio that
> has run on Linux since it was released.
>
> whoever posted this is likely an example of a number of my audio
> engineer friends: they know just enough about computers for their
> knowledge to be dangerous, and confusing.
One thing is clear about Avid is that they are in significant financial
trouble and are basically spending all their money on marketing instead of
actually making anything of value anymore.
That usually signifies a company in significant distress.
-- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-devReceived on Mon Aug 30 20:15:02 2010
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