Quote from: revtonynewnham on January 24, 2012, 07:06:45 PMYes Tony, I'm well aware of Ubuntu as that's what the Artisan Sound Engines run on at Uckfield. Unfortunately they're using a rather old version - Ubuntu v5 - to avoid latency issues and that version doesn't have support for many modern facilities, such as PCIe, much to my dismay. :(
Hi
For what it's worth, Ubuntu isn't Linux-based, it's one of a number of different versions of Linux!
Tony
I still find Ubuntu geeky and not especially friendly. Its security is just so far over the top for 'normal' users who are not on a network and don't need the infernal nannying.
There's a 'console' that comes with the Delta 1010LT cards, but Linux doesn't support that either. It would make life so much easier if it did, as the console has real-time input and output bar graphs, which would make setting up far more friendly.
Even with the new Sound Engines which use Suse, the facilities are fairly crude and there appears to be one useful (NOT) 'feature' which picks up wheel presses from the mouse and dumps random text all over the definition file when using the editor, which cannot be removed. Grrrr......
To me, having to open a Terminal and type "killall sep" to stop the Sound Engine and to type "./ase" to restart it, is like living back in the dark ages of DOS!
Believe me, as an Assembler programmer, I like nothing better than delving into code at bit level, but to have to do almost that to get round a GUI based OS is crude in the extreme.
Regards,
Alan.