Re: [microsound] ppc-oriented Linux(was: Gentoo for MacOS)

[Arie van Schutterhoef <arsche@xxxxxxxxx>]

>you provoked it... my highly subjective and slightly romantic account:
-Most certainly and I'm going to enjoy it with a similar notion...

>- under Linux my computer does _exactly_ what I want it to, not what
>others think I want it to
-My does too and I use Mac OS 9...

>- I have only the software installed I need (including the system
>software)
-Why should you do otherwise; I only run the software under Mac OS 9
 that I want/need, not what I'm 'supposed to run' (come to think
 of that: it'a my machine not somebody else's...)'

>- I have only the services running I really use (no iChat-auto-popup
>notifier, no finder-indexing-auto-daemon, no iTunes that eats up bloody
>20% of my CPU for simple mp3-playback!...)
-I only switch on what I need...

>- the desktop looks and behaves _exactly_ as I need it to to be productive
>(several desktops, windows get focus by just pointing the mouse, no
>clicking, _my_ keyboard shortcuts for every task I like, etc. etc..)
-Kind of: see previous answer...

>- The software quenches the last little bit of performance from the
>hardware instead of trying to cater for any remotely possible setup
>- Under Mac-On-Linux OS9 runs beautifully on my Aluminium Porwerbook with
>real Finder and almost real devices (works much better than Classic)
-Don't need 'Mac-On-Linux OS9': I have Mac OS 9...

>- JACK and ardour with ladpsa-plugins, supercollider and jamin is the most
>productive music environment I ever worked with! Those apps don't run on
>OS X (except for JACK, sort of)
-Still have the original SuperCollider...

>- All this doesn't cost me money, just time (and being a poor student I
>definitely have more time than money to spare), and the time spent
>rewards me with more knowledge, great, eh?
-Every OS costs time and rewards you with knowledge (how benevolent...);

>Downside:
>- OpenGL Hardware accelleration does not work, yet.
-Just acquired a SGI Octane with OpenGL...

>- Getting the Modem of the newer machines to run can be a major PITA
-???

>- And yes, there was a steep learning curve involved when I started with
>Linux in '97, but it was worth it! IMHO you can only produce art, if you
>really know what the tools you use actually do.
-As far as OS'es concerned, there is no real difference (There is
 a difference in OS's. but not in the time spent learning them)

>(bluntly: no "digital"
>art without knowing at least one decent programming language like
>C/C++/Java/SuperCollider,
-Or at least knowing what it is...

>analogue: If you can't draw with a pencil you
>probably won't become a good painter).
-Or mixing the wrong colours...


Anyway, on to you again...

AvS

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