On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:21:47PM -0600, Ryan Gallagher wrote: > Reliability - Check with Mark about how often PTLE changes in any > fundamental way... rarely. It's the "just works" philosophy. Especially because, as mentioned earlier, a typical Pro Tools box is switched on to run PT and nothing else. Even Windows is quite stable treated like that. No networking, viruses and other malware to worry about. On the other side of the coin, that dedicated-to-one-job type of application OUGHT to be a good target for Linux - kernel, drivers and everything totally customisable in ways that Windows can never be. I suspect that the first successful Linux DAW will be an (almost) embedded system. You buy a box, plug it in and Ardour (though the user might never know it as that) appears on the screen... -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827