You have no idea about audio production on Linux if you think PulseAudio has anything to do with it.
Content creation whether, audio, video, 2D, 3D, or other at the professional level generally requires the ability to jump among a variety of software packages, plugins, and occasional one-jobbers.
If there's a limitation with Linux, that's it. Good quality software and hardware are available, but there's far less choice than there is for Windows, which is obviously supported by every manufacturer.
Linux would be good for this, but most of the mainstream desktop UIs (KDE, Gnome, etc.) tend to be very slow and porky, so it really would take a separate desktop environment that is lightweight in order to allow Linux to be useful for an audio or audio/video platform.
It also needs a few system tweaks and, for best latency, a low-latency or even realtime kernel.
AV Linux is a Debian system so tweaked, making it very easy to use. It also comes with XFCE, which is more than enough desktop functionality to do audio and video work and llightweight enough not to get in the way.
It is better, whichever OS you use, to have a dedicated system for realtime work like multitrack audio recording and mixing. Real recording studios don't do their accounts and email on the studio computer. Not while it's being used in a recording session, anyway...
Most Linux based audio production setups don't go anywhere near PulseAudio.
ALSA isn't a problem.
For audio production you usually need JACK which lets makes audio and MIDI connections between audio programs and I/O.
And Ardour is getting to be a polished and very capable product now. Neither has any application on a normal desktop system, but for audio work they are ideal.
I agree that it's fairly pointless to create an arbitrary unit when it can be expressed exactly in standard metric units. This is dumbing down so UK equivalent of Joe Sixpack can understand it.
It isn't strictly necessary for it to translate internationally. Foreign visitors to the UK don't need to know. If you come to the UK and are worried about drinking and driving, for example, the official blood alcohol test limit doesn't use that 'unit' anyway: it's more sensibly based on e.g. milligrammes per 100 millilitres of blood, though you'd have to do extensive research to find out how much of your favourite tipple you could consume to reach that level for your own body weight and metabolic rate.
That isn't a problem - there are no medical bills when you're dead.
Having just lost a friend whose breast cancer started 10 years ago, I'm acutely aware that if you die of cancer there can be huge medical bills before you are dead. (or there would be, if it wasn't all taken care of by the NHS as it was in this case).
It would be better - a lot better - if there was actual, reliable ethernet hardware on there, and I'd be more than happy to pay a few bucks for it.
Odroid C1+ does it a lot better for a few more bucks. OK, quite a lot more bucks, but it's much better all round.
Actually the new RPi could cram WiFi on the board in less space than an Ethernet connector, which would be good enough for most of its networking needs but I suspect add too much to the cost.
The ethernet on the other PI's is not particularly reliable, and that, in my case, is the downfall of the whole enterprise. I have four pis. They all drop their ethernet connections from time to time. It's beyond annoying.
I must be very lucky as I have one which is on 24/7 as a home mail/backup/DNS server. Though it's slow for USB sharing reasons described above, it's run for over 2 years without problems. (touch wood...)
Let me add a legit complain. They only have one USB port, and ethernet/harddisk will have to share it.
The fact's there's no built-in Ethernet interface is a legitimate complaint, but the performance issue is the same on the original Rasperry Pi, whose onboard Ethernet interface is actually a USB device sharing a USB hub with the external USB connectors.
With breakable encryption, criminals can edit your banking records and pedophiles can see all the "private" pics of your children. Do you really want breakable encryption?
The UK government still seem to be enjoying the delusion that they can choose who can break encryption and who can't.
I didn't vote for them, don't blame me!
A better example would be believing the earth is the centre of the universe and the sun goes round it. Copernicus had a real struggle to convince people that what was "obvious" wasn't actually true.
Since when has blocking some pirate sites been the same as censoring the content? Hysterical, much?
I'm no advocate of piracy, but the principle of allowing government-controlled selective blocking of information (for *any* reason, to start with) sets a dangerous precedent.
I'm in the UK, I've read 1984 and I do care. And, like many of us, I didn't vote for this stupid government.
As for ISP's, on Plus Net currently, but I'm all ready to switch to Andrews & Arnold at the drop of a hat if any of this crap gets in the way of my internet use (or possibly when I actually need IPV6, whichever happens first)
Incidentally, Cameron is quite likely pleased about the Eu threat to make internet censorship illegal. He'll play the "think of the children" card for all it's worth in the hope of getting public support for his plan to getting us out of Europe, which would suit him fine.
Emigration is starting to look like a serious option. Either that or getting quite unpleasantly noisy and political, and encouraging others to do the same.
I think you missed the big one: lots of people might actually start using Google+.
...Some people just didn't like the blatant privacy violations.
I might start using Google+, because the new system WILL allow me to use my real name at last.
I didn't care for jumping though all the certification hoops required to prove that my usual (single) name is, in fact, real.
Doesn't really tell us anything and certainly doesn't deny any of what Julie has alleged.
It doesn't deny it, but it does suggest that the problem is restricted to one or two people and not represent GitHub's office culture generally. It may not be quite as simple as that, of course, if the claims of chatroom spying turn out to be true.
There was a network of hydraulic pipes around the City of London, originally for powering hydraulically operated lifts (elevators) from a central source of water pressure. The pipes, unused for many decades, were bought up by Mercury Communications as a ready-made conduit for their new fibre network in the 1980s. It was obviously far cheaper than digging up the road for new pipework, as far as it went.
I've used Avidemux for a long time, tried KDEnlive before and it was hard to understand and kept crashing - but a recent version of KDEnlive is quite different - easy to use, reasonably stable, does more than I want and will use all six cores of my CPU for rendering if I ask it to.
I don't know about Pitivi, but you'd have to work very hard to convince me to throw development money at that when KDEnlive is apparently so far ahead.
As mentioned above there's also Cinelerra. I found that hard work to understand but I suspect it's very powerful.
Ardour is getting very good these days. The MIDI support (new in Ardour 3) still has a few problems, but some intensive development focus on MIDI is apparently planned soon. I've produced a couple of whole CD albums on Ardour (sound recording only, no MIDI) and it's performed well, originally with M-Audio hardware but I'm using RME now.
Getting Ardour and other music/video software installed and configured to work properly and with low latency isn't easy though, and you are best off with a distribution that's been designed for that purpose from the start. AV Linux is my choice, though I've heard good things said about KXStudio and Dream Studio too.
I never said SD cards had to be FAT: what I said was that Windows can and will use long names on FAT16, citing SD cards below 2GB as a commonly available example of FAT16, and when you buy them new they are formatted with FAT.
And yes, at least with FAT there are volume size implications in the choice of FAT12 vs FAT16 vs FAT32.
FAT12 and FAT16 DO support long filenames.
For example, most SD cards up to 1GB are FAT16 (so are some 2GB cards), and Windows will create long file names on them.
Though you wouldn't often need or want to use LFN on a volume small enough to be FAT12, there's no technical reason why you couldn't.
So the Patent discussion is applicable to all three FAT sizes, because they all use the same mechanism for long names.
Why not say all OSes got 64-bit. Do they expect us to read the article or something? Honestly..
If I remember correctly, for a long time there have been 32 bit and 64 bit flash plugins for Windows while Linux only had 32 bit versions; you needed a special software wrapper to use the 32 bit plugin on 64 bit Linux, and it didn't work too well for everybody.
So Linux getting a 64 bit plugin along with the other platforms IS newsworthy.
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Content creation whether, audio, video, 2D, 3D, or other at the professional level generally requires the ability to jump among a variety of software packages, plugins, and occasional one-jobbers.
If there's a limitation with Linux, that's it. Good quality software and hardware are available, but there's far less choice than there is for Windows, which is obviously supported by every manufacturer.
Linux would be good for this, but most of the mainstream desktop UIs (KDE, Gnome, etc.) tend to be very slow and porky, so it really would take a separate desktop environment that is lightweight in order to allow Linux to be useful for an audio or audio/video platform.
It also needs a few system tweaks and, for best latency, a low-latency or even realtime kernel.
AV Linux is a Debian system so tweaked, making it very easy to use. It also comes with XFCE, which is more than enough desktop functionality to do audio and video work and llightweight enough not to get in the way.
It is better, whichever OS you use, to have a dedicated system for realtime work like multitrack audio recording and mixing. Real recording studios don't do their accounts and email on the studio computer. Not while it's being used in a recording session, anyway...
For audio production you usually need JACK which lets makes audio and MIDI connections between audio programs and I/O. And Ardour is getting to be a polished and very capable product now. Neither has any application on a normal desktop system, but for audio work they are ideal.
It isn't strictly necessary for it to translate internationally. Foreign visitors to the UK don't need to know. If you come to the UK and are worried about drinking and driving, for example, the official blood alcohol test limit doesn't use that 'unit' anyway: it's more sensibly based on e.g. milligrammes per 100 millilitres of blood, though you'd have to do extensive research to find out how much of your favourite tipple you could consume to reach that level for your own body weight and metabolic rate.
One unit is 10 ml of pure alcohol The link gives some more useful examples in terms of actual drinks e.g. about half a pint of beer.
There is nothing scientific about it
Fret not, most of us won't take any notice anyway.
That isn't a problem - there are no medical bills when you're dead.
Having just lost a friend whose breast cancer started 10 years ago, I'm acutely aware that if you die of cancer there can be huge medical bills before you are dead. (or there would be, if it wasn't all taken care of by the NHS as it was in this case).
Because a miscreant can create a collision, i.e. a different file with the same MD5 or SHA-1 hash, with accessible computing power.
I'd love to believe that's why Microsoft have been calling Windows 10 "the last version of Windows".
It would be better - a lot better - if there was actual, reliable ethernet hardware on there, and I'd be more than happy to pay a few bucks for it.
Odroid C1+ does it a lot better for a few more bucks. OK, quite a lot more bucks, but it's much better all round. Actually the new RPi could cram WiFi on the board in less space than an Ethernet connector, which would be good enough for most of its networking needs but I suspect add too much to the cost.
The ethernet on the other PI's is not particularly reliable, and that, in my case, is the downfall of the whole enterprise. I have four pis. They all drop their ethernet connections from time to time. It's beyond annoying.
I must be very lucky as I have one which is on 24/7 as a home mail/backup/DNS server. Though it's slow for USB sharing reasons described above, it's run for over 2 years without problems. (touch wood...)
Let me add a legit complain. They only have one USB port, and ethernet/harddisk will have to share it.
The fact's there's no built-in Ethernet interface is a legitimate complaint, but the performance issue is the same on the original Rasperry Pi, whose onboard Ethernet interface is actually a USB device sharing a USB hub with the external USB connectors.
Java is not suitable for realtime due to unpredictable GC
Not disputing that, but realtime is a problem for *any* language that has automatic garbage collection.
With breakable encryption, criminals can edit your banking records and pedophiles can see all the "private" pics of your children. Do you really want breakable encryption?
The UK government still seem to be enjoying the delusion that they can choose who can break encryption and who can't. I didn't vote for them, don't blame me!
A better example would be believing the earth is the centre of the universe and the sun goes round it. Copernicus had a real struggle to convince people that what was "obvious" wasn't actually true.
Since when has blocking some pirate sites been the same as censoring the content? Hysterical, much?
I'm no advocate of piracy, but the principle of allowing government-controlled selective blocking of information (for *any* reason, to start with) sets a dangerous precedent.
Don't you guys care at all?
I'm in the UK, I've read 1984 and I do care. And, like many of us, I didn't vote for this stupid government.
As for ISP's, on Plus Net currently, but I'm all ready to switch to Andrews & Arnold at the drop of a hat if any of this crap gets in the way of my internet use (or possibly when I actually need IPV6, whichever happens first) Incidentally, Cameron is quite likely pleased about the Eu threat to make internet censorship illegal. He'll play the "think of the children" card for all it's worth in the hope of getting public support for his plan to getting us out of Europe, which would suit him fine.
Emigration is starting to look like a serious option. Either that or getting quite unpleasantly noisy and political, and encouraging others to do the same.
I think you missed the big one: lots of people might actually start using Google+.
I might start using Google+, because the new system WILL allow me to use my real name at last.
I didn't care for jumping though all the certification hoops required to prove that my usual (single) name is, in fact, real.
Doesn't really tell us anything and certainly doesn't deny any of what Julie has alleged.
It doesn't deny it, but it does suggest that the problem is restricted to one or two people and not represent GitHub's office culture generally. It may not be quite as simple as that, of course, if the claims of chatroom spying turn out to be true.
There was a network of hydraulic pipes around the City of London, originally for powering hydraulically operated lifts (elevators) from a central source of water pressure. The pipes, unused for many decades, were bought up by Mercury Communications as a ready-made conduit for their new fibre network in the 1980s. It was obviously far cheaper than digging up the road for new pipework, as far as it went.
I've used Avidemux for a long time, tried KDEnlive before and it was hard to understand and kept crashing - but a recent version of KDEnlive is quite different - easy to use, reasonably stable, does more than I want and will use all six cores of my CPU for rendering if I ask it to. I don't know about Pitivi, but you'd have to work very hard to convince me to throw development money at that when KDEnlive is apparently so far ahead.
As mentioned above there's also Cinelerra. I found that hard work to understand but I suspect it's very powerful.
Getting Ardour and other music/video software installed and configured to work properly and with low latency isn't easy though, and you are best off with a distribution that's been designed for that purpose from the start. AV Linux is my choice, though I've heard good things said about KXStudio and Dream Studio too.
And yes, at least with FAT there are volume size implications in the choice of FAT12 vs FAT16 vs FAT32.
So the Patent discussion is applicable to all three FAT sizes, because they all use the same mechanism for long names.
How long before organized crime is also tracking the movements of officers?
Why not say all OSes got 64-bit. Do they expect us to read the article or something? Honestly..
If I remember correctly, for a long time there have been 32 bit and 64 bit flash plugins for Windows while Linux only had 32 bit versions; you needed a special software wrapper to use the 32 bit plugin on 64 bit Linux, and it didn't work too well for everybody.
So Linux getting a 64 bit plugin along with the other platforms IS newsworthy.