Re: [LAU] Audio distro for a Macbook pro

I once tried to dual boot Ubuntustudio on a MBP, I wasn't blown away lets
say. Also every generation of Macs has different hardware specs and I found
it pretty difficult to find out specific chipset vendors (before buying),
in my case the Firewire chipset.
That said I didn't really put a lot of work into getting it to a stable
status. As for now I just stick with Mixbus on OSX for my mobile rig.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:19 PM, chris kennedy <cobberdig@email-addr-hiddenwrote:

>
> She could also run a dual boot with OSX and Debian see
> http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook#Double_boot_-_Mac_OS_X_.26_Debian
> You'd want to recompile a stock kernel on debian to make realtime or
> lowlatency or you could simply download one as a .deb file.
>
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> *From:* Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
> *To:* Al Thompson <althompson58@email-addr-hidden>
> *Cc:* linux-audio-user <Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:55 AM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [LAU] Audio distro for a Macbook pro
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> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Al Thompson <althompson58@email-addr-hiddenwrote:
>
> So a friend of mine at work has decided she wants to check out audio and
> MIDI on Linux. BUT, she has a Macbook Pro, and I've never paid any
> attention to distros that were for Macs. What's a good audio/MIDI (plus
> general purpose) distro that is easy to get running on a Macbook Pro?
>
>
> its hard to see why she would not use OS X on her MBP if audio/midi is the
> goal. not all, but several of the better FOSS apps are available for OS X,
> and that only adds to the vastly improved array of FX and synth plugins on
> OS X.
>
> i appreciate that there may be a principle at work here, but honestly,
> she'll get more done with OS X unless she is herself a natural tinkerer
> and/or has "odd" needs (e.g. academic electroacoustic music)
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