i can only speak for myself, but for several reasons i like ubuntu the most. also i get the impression, that it grows to one of the biggest linux communities, so you are not alone, if you encounter troubles.
if you are after a compiled pd-extended anyway, visit http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html to see, which distros are supported (also here, ubuntu is well supported).
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:11 -0700, Thomas Jeppesen wrote:
Hi all,
I've been trying to get PD up and running on linux for a while, but so far I've not been lucky, prolly because I'm a linux nub. The first installation I tried (Fedora) didn't have a familiar interface. The second (Ubuntu) did, but I couldn't install PD on it for some unknow reason. I used a tar-ball installation, and ran the "make install" -command and it did install on the computer, but PD just wouldn't start up.
did you do ./configure first? have you installed the dependencies? (at least tk8.4-dev and tcl8.4-dev come to my mind) what does 'wouldn't startup' mean? i mean, wasn't there any error printed to the console?
On the third distribution I tried JackLab, PD worked, but I had no internet connection. I'm used to run normal pc's (Windows), so I'm after a distribution that has a graphic desktop environment to not make it too unfamiliar for starters. But most of all I'm after a distribution that will run PD-extended and do it good.
it is somehow in the name of ubuntu, that it tries to make everything as easy as possible (and it has a graphic environment etc. and i have good latency with the standard ubuntu kernel [5ms roundtrip on my hdsp]).
there is also puredyne https://devel.goto10.org/puredyne , which is sure worth to try, since it comes with many audio-apps like pd, jack and the like already included.
my two cents roman
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