--- Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 08:47 -0800, Mark Knecht > wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 13:16:16 +0100 (CET), Kjetil > Svalastog Matheussen > > <k.s.matheussen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Mark Knecht: > > > > > > > > BTW - I truly think that in the next 12-24 > months Digi will release > > > > PTLE for Linux > > > > What digidesign should do, is to make their own > specialized distribution > > > of linux to run protools > > > I agree about rolling their own distro. That makes > tons of sense for > > the Pro Market > > I'm so sorry to be the one to inject the reality > (read: doom and gloom) > here... there's absolutely no way in hell Avid will > ever hire/train or > otherwise enlist linux developers to create a whole > freaking new > distro.... ever. > > They're not in the OS business, and never will be... > I was suggesting > the very remote and distant possiblity of a > linux-embedded automated > console... not a distro. > > I'll bet the house on this one -> DigiDesign will > not become a linux > distributor/vendor. > > We really should all be throwing our shoulders > behind ardour, working to > make a DAW better than PT anyway. Mark, maybe we > should raise the issue > of PTLE interoperability on the ardour-dev list > again? Paul was open to > it when last it came up... it was just disecting > that session > format/file standing in the way IIRC. I think it's on the development roadmap. Maybe not. It's an important feature. I recently lost a remix and master job because it was recorded in PT. I didn't really want the job anyway but if I did it would have cost them to much to have me deal with it. ron > -ry > > -- > Ryan Gallagher <ruinaudio@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
