But realtime multimedia development demands realtime response, which is difficult if not nearly impossible to achieve, guaranteed, in a pre-emptively multitasking OS. I've never used BeOS but had heard good things about it in this regard, and SGI has some nice guaranteed-rate I/O stuff and realtime process priorities in IRIX. But Linux at this point isn't that close.
Have you been following the news on linux-audio-dev? For the past year or so, there has been a kernel patch (by Ingo Molnar) that guarantees latency times below 4 msec. This is on par with BeOS, previously the market leader. (Windows, for reference, gets about 20 msec; I'm not sure about the old Mac OS, but I know it's not that great.) Unfortunately, this patch was kind of kludgy (by Ingo's own admission) and Linus wouldn't include it. But in the past few weeks, Andrew Morton has written a clean and successful low-latency patch that is likely to be accepted. During testing, it has been found to be stable and get sub-2 msec latencies. We're already beating BeOS, and we've been beating Mac OS and Windows for quite some time now.
As for cron, it's a DDT (Don't Do That!). There's no need to run cron on a DAW, so disable it.
On the topic of MOSX, I think it should do quite well. It's heavily based on NeXTSTEP, which was quite popular in serious computer music fields (CCRMA and so forth). The MusicKit is also being actively updated for MOSX (and somewhat less actively ported to Linux/GNUstep). I have to say that I'm increasingly excited about the developments in computer music lately--it's an exciting time to be doing this.
I was one of the signatories of the petition. My statement about Linus not being interested was meant to relate more to his interest in music applications themselves. It's not really his thing (which is not bad, or anything). I also seem to recall that he once made some statement which equated to, "I don't think Linux should be on the desktop." I may have this wrong, however.
At any rate, he does appear to have some hope of this happening at some point.
"Windows is still a no-brainer for most people," he said, adding it will take Linux "perhaps five or 10 years" to catch up, at least for home-computer users.
Well, from recent discussion on the linux-audio-dev list, I can safely state that many audio engineers and musicians are dying to start using Linux. They're sick and tired of the high latencies (even with DirectSound) under Windows; they're tired of the crashes. Between ALSA, Andrew Morton's new low-latency patch, the developing LADSPA, and more, Linux is a rising music platform. Unfortunately, Linus doesn't seem to be too interested in (or particularly cognizant of) these developments. But still, it's coming; and it's coming rapidly.
Oh well, such a group of people certainly does not exist.
I have the pleasure of telling you about one such community. Find out more here. There are people from the UIUC air disaster research department donating flight models, there's work on X15 and hot-air balloon models being done, pilots from all over the place contributing advice (and code, in some cases), and some excellent core developers. Flightgear implements some truly amazing features (like an elliptoid world model; accurate geographical modelling of the whole world; complete simulation of all astral bodies according to date, time, geographic location; etc.) that has really impressed flight instructors all over the place. It's still in heavy development, especially the new flight model and the weather/scenery code.
Linux is just a kernel. It's the GNU toolset that we would have to get rid of. If you stuck with the regular UNIX tools and user software, and tried to build a script-based superstructure on it (like what Redhat has done), then you would be correct; this is just not a good solution.
However, if you keep the kernel and write good, clean, tightly integrated userspace stuff on top (like what NeXT did and what Apple is doing now), then there is no reason for it not to work.
I'd like to see something like a free NeXTSTEP based on a bare-bones open source kernel (HURD, Linux, or FreeBSD), plus GNUstep <grin>, a streamlined and efficient WindowServer, lots of spiffy tools and applications, AND the option of having the GNU toolset available from a term. It can be done and we do have the beginnings of this (Linux, GNUstep, and Berlin).
What's new about this? Bad site documentation is a long standing problem among sysadmins. Why doesn't he write an article about how to better maintain your site docs instead? T'would be more helpful.
Of course, those songs are only popular because the recording industry advertised so much and practically shoved them down the throats of the public. Do you think anyone would listen to Britney Spears if the recording industry didn't promote the hell out of her? They build up such a perceived need in the (impressionable) young audiences that they can't resist buying it.
Congressman Bob is offered $100,000 from a corporation to vote to pass a law. He is shown polls that suggest 70% of his constituents favor this law.
I can absolutely guarantee that not even 0.01% of constituents wrote to their congresshumans about this law.
Furthermore, no matter how many people tell their congresshuman what they want, said congresshuman must do what they think is best. "Buck stops here" kinda stuff.
OK. If an individual owns a copyright, the copyright will remain in effect 70 years after their death (for now--I'm sure they will increase this again). Now, if a corporation (an artificial entity that is given certain rights as if it were a person) goes out of business, isn't this the same thing as death? The only difference is that a person, after dying, has an estate that can continue to claim profits; a corporation does not have an estate--it simply ceases to exist. Therefore, if the corporation goes out of business, and they have no estate, the copyright ceases to exist as well. Can someone (possibly even a lawyer) comment on this? What is the legal viewpoint of a corporation that ceases to exist? Do they have an "estate"?
Both the Amiga and the Atari ST, although decent enough, we're not really on the same level. This was only partly because of the DSP hardware in and of itself. The MusicKit had a lot more to do with it. Powerful yet easy-to-use realtime DSP (a la Capybara/Kyma combo) is mind-blowingly useful.
I hate to keep spouting off here on/. but I feel it necessary to reply to all those with OPENSTEP experience to remind them of the existence of GNUstep. GNUstep has IB and PB clones in development, and since you mention WebObjects, there is a GNUstep Web project as well. We have a GNU 3DKit too. If you can port or write end-user applications (or help out with the core frameworks) we would appreciate this help.
You may be interested in the fact that there is an effort underway to port the MusicKit to GNUstep/Linux. My ultimate goal is to get DSP hardware acceleration and a superb realtime synthesis solution to run under GNUstep/Linux. Perhaps I can get SynthBuilder to work.
GNUstep is actually doing quite well. It's just that the news about it never seems to leak out. We're actively tracking Cocoa (I'm writing an NSSound implementation in my spare time) and there are several important applications (a Workspace clone, an IB clone, a PB clone) in development. There is also an alpha version of a GNU 3DKit available. If you can help us write (or port) end-user applications, please do. It's ripe for the picking.
You can go install GNUstep now and go for it. We've just had our latest release (0.6.6) and things are becoming stable enough to begin writing applications. We desperately need more end-user software. We have an alpha version of a GL framework (GNU 3DKit) and work is being done on an IB clone called GORM (it's currently available in the GNUstep CVS) and a PB clone called ProjectCenter that will be available here. There are a few other applications available as well. Any efforts to port existing Objective C applications to GNUstep are also appreciated. I'd like to see a good modern web browser written for GNUstep.
Currently, you can write applications with the developers release of MOSX or with an old OPENSTEP box and then convert the nib files to gmodels. This is the way ProjectCenter and the 3DKit are being written. We would really appreciate any and all interest.
Are you kidding me? The NeXT was the greatest computer music platform ever designed! Stanford's CCRMA was (and may still be) using NeXT machines a couple of years ago. Only the Capybara has exceeded the power of the NeXT. The MusicKit (designed by David Jaffe and Julius Smith) is a hallowed word in DSP circles. IMO, the DSP was the most significant piece of equipment in the package.
I have long felt the same way. I can't wholeheartedly support any party; and because of the "big tent" philosophy of the two primary parties, I can hardly support either of them at all.
Parties are meant to be a link between people and government but do they really do this anymore? They just seem to be a way for a lot of people with different views to compromise everything so they can hold power (which means nothing when you've compromised away everything you wanted to do). I don't know if we can do better, though.
The old DOS code is still there (as has been noted by many here); it's just more difficult to get to a command prompt. But old DOS applications will definitely still work and, yes, the title of this article is misleading.
What are you talking about? Haven't you ever heard of the First Amendment? I can damn well say anything I want about Microsoft's products. It won't do anything; but I can say it.
So, what is this "karma whore" I keep hearing about? I don't know "karma whore." Do you? Seriously, do you actually believe that people go around looking for ways to gain karma? I don't. I don't even believe in karma. Karma is a tenet of a stupid eastern "religion" that I don't believe.
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Have you been following the news on linux-audio-dev? For the past year or so, there has been a kernel patch (by Ingo Molnar) that guarantees latency times below 4 msec. This is on par with BeOS, previously the market leader. (Windows, for reference, gets about 20 msec; I'm not sure about the old Mac OS, but I know it's not that great.) Unfortunately, this patch was kind of kludgy (by Ingo's own admission) and Linus wouldn't include it. But in the past few weeks, Andrew Morton has written a clean and successful low-latency patch that is likely to be accepted. During testing, it has been found to be stable and get sub-2 msec latencies. We're already beating BeOS, and we've been beating Mac OS and Windows for quite some time now.
As for cron, it's a DDT (Don't Do That!). There's no need to run cron on a DAW, so disable it.
On the topic of MOSX, I think it should do quite well. It's heavily based on NeXTSTEP, which was quite popular in serious computer music fields (CCRMA and so forth). The MusicKit is also being actively updated for MOSX (and somewhat less actively ported to Linux/GNUstep). I have to say that I'm increasingly excited about the developments in computer music lately--it's an exciting time to be doing this.
At any rate, he does appear to have some hope of this happening at some point.
Well, from recent discussion on the linux-audio-dev list, I can safely state that many audio engineers and musicians are dying to start using Linux. They're sick and tired of the high latencies (even with DirectSound) under Windows; they're tired of the crashes. Between ALSA, Andrew Morton's new low-latency patch, the developing LADSPA, and more, Linux is a rising music platform. Unfortunately, Linus doesn't seem to be too interested in (or particularly cognizant of) these developments. But still, it's coming; and it's coming rapidly.
I have the pleasure of telling you about one such community. Find out more here. There are people from the UIUC air disaster research department donating flight models, there's work on X15 and hot-air balloon models being done, pilots from all over the place contributing advice (and code, in some cases), and some excellent core developers. Flightgear implements some truly amazing features (like an elliptoid world model; accurate geographical modelling of the whole world; complete simulation of all astral bodies according to date, time, geographic location; etc.) that has really impressed flight instructors all over the place. It's still in heavy development, especially the new flight model and the weather/scenery code.
My question is whether or not the first sale doctrine can/will be used in the appeals. If so, how would that argument go?
Yeah, the Windows NT kernel. (The lead on the NT kernel team was also the chief architect of VMS when he worked for DEC.)
Pare down the kernel to a reasonable point.
Make Berlin robust and efficient.
Make GNUstep robust and efficient.
Write a Berlin backend for GNUstep.
Write well integrated top-of-the-line system software (a new sysinit, better daemons, etc) and user applications for GNUstep.
Market it well.
Go buy yourself a drink--you deserve it.
However, if you keep the kernel and write good, clean, tightly integrated userspace stuff on top (like what NeXT did and what Apple is doing now), then there is no reason for it not to work.
I'd like to see something like a free NeXTSTEP based on a bare-bones open source kernel (HURD, Linux, or FreeBSD), plus GNUstep <grin>, a streamlined and efficient WindowServer, lots of spiffy tools and applications, AND the option of having the GNU toolset available from a term. It can be done and we do have the beginnings of this (Linux, GNUstep, and Berlin).
What's new about this? Bad site documentation is a long standing problem among sysadmins. Why doesn't he write an article about how to better maintain your site docs instead? T'would be more helpful.
Of course, those songs are only popular because the recording industry advertised so much and practically shoved them down the throats of the public. Do you think anyone would listen to Britney Spears if the recording industry didn't promote the hell out of her? They build up such a perceived need in the (impressionable) young audiences that they can't resist buying it.
I can absolutely guarantee that not even 0.01% of constituents wrote to their congresshumans about this law.
Furthermore, no matter how many people tell their congresshuman what they want, said congresshuman must do what they think is best. "Buck stops here" kinda stuff.
OK. If an individual owns a copyright, the copyright will remain in effect 70 years after their death (for now--I'm sure they will increase this again). Now, if a corporation (an artificial entity that is given certain rights as if it were a person) goes out of business, isn't this the same thing as death? The only difference is that a person, after dying, has an estate that can continue to claim profits; a corporation does not have an estate--it simply ceases to exist. Therefore, if the corporation goes out of business, and they have no estate, the copyright ceases to exist as well. Can someone (possibly even a lawyer) comment on this? What is the legal viewpoint of a corporation that ceases to exist? Do they have an "estate"?
I'll look into this...thanks. All of the source I've seen is labeled with the LGPL, so it should be OK.
Both the Amiga and the Atari ST, although decent enough, we're not really on the same level. This was only partly because of the DSP hardware in and of itself. The MusicKit had a lot more to do with it. Powerful yet easy-to-use realtime DSP (a la Capybara/Kyma combo) is mind-blowingly useful.
I hate to keep spouting off here on /. but I feel it necessary to reply to all those with OPENSTEP experience to remind them of the existence of GNUstep. GNUstep has IB and PB clones in development, and since you mention WebObjects, there is a GNUstep Web project as well. We have a GNU 3DKit too. If you can port or write end-user applications (or help out with the core frameworks) we would appreciate this help.
You may be interested in the fact that there is an effort underway to port the MusicKit to GNUstep/Linux. My ultimate goal is to get DSP hardware acceleration and a superb realtime synthesis solution to run under GNUstep/Linux. Perhaps I can get SynthBuilder to work.
GNUstep is actually doing quite well. It's just that the news about it never seems to leak out. We're actively tracking Cocoa (I'm writing an NSSound implementation in my spare time) and there are several important applications (a Workspace clone, an IB clone, a PB clone) in development. There is also an alpha version of a GNU 3DKit available. If you can help us write (or port) end-user applications, please do. It's ripe for the picking.
Currently, you can write applications with the developers release of MOSX or with an old OPENSTEP box and then convert the nib files to gmodels. This is the way ProjectCenter and the 3DKit are being written. We would really appreciate any and all interest.
Are you kidding me? The NeXT was the greatest computer music platform ever designed! Stanford's CCRMA was (and may still be) using NeXT machines a couple of years ago. Only the Capybara has exceeded the power of the NeXT. The MusicKit (designed by David Jaffe and Julius Smith) is a hallowed word in DSP circles. IMO, the DSP was the most significant piece of equipment in the package.
Parties are meant to be a link between people and government but do they really do this anymore? They just seem to be a way for a lot of people with different views to compromise everything so they can hold power (which means nothing when you've compromised away everything you wanted to do). I don't know if we can do better, though.
The old DOS code is still there (as has been noted by many here); it's just more difficult to get to a command prompt. But old DOS applications will definitely still work and, yes, the title of this article is misleading.
What are you talking about? Haven't you ever heard of the First Amendment? I can damn well say anything I want about Microsoft's products. It won't do anything; but I can say it.
Maybe we can convince them to put BASH in the next Windows OS. <grin>
Maybe your kernel just isn't adventurous enough? Get it a subscription to National Geographic.
So, what is this "karma whore" I keep hearing about? I don't know "karma whore." Do you? Seriously, do you actually believe that people go around looking for ways to gain karma? I don't. I don't even believe in karma. Karma is a tenet of a stupid eastern "religion" that I don't believe.