davidrclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi again Ron, > > On another topic, you posted: > > >>Or why does Linux only require one cold reboot for >>every 10 or 20 of Mac OS 9? > > > My experience has been that Linux audio requires 10 to 20 times as many > reboots as Windows audio, the opposite of all other applications. The > Linux kernels themselves, if left alone, are very stable. it's pretty hard to get a linux audio system built for one's specific hardware and distribution ... in my experience, fedora core offers the easiest access. even still, it took me *ages* till i could even get CCRMA up and running. but now that i have ... my machine hasn't frozen in months ... the only reason i *do* reboot is because that has been genetically programmed into me by a few years of Windows use ... i just can't help it. on my current machine, i've never experienced such stability. what's more, using ardour and hydrogen is *so* damned easy, and the shitty music i make sounds *so* much less shitty through linux audio production than it did on windows. and, hey - i'm by no means a talented hacker/programmer/whatever ... the one lasting - and enslaving - legacy from the months of work trying to get linux audio happening, is that i can't give up the quest ... i'm constantly putting myself in a position of updating/compiling/patching etc ... it's sort of like the insane and endless quest for *every* vst plugin that i succumbed to while using windows (believe me, though, that was a lot more counterproductive). shayne
