On Jul 18, 2009, at 5:47 PM, Jaime Oliver wrote:
Hi,
I use pd/gem in fedora without any problems whatsoever. Right now I just installed fedora 11 and it works perfect.
no problems in fedora? - you are lucky. Of course it would require more details as to how you achieved the 'no problem' state. From what I find on the various newsgroups that only those guys who have a serious proficiency in Linux reach that state. By proficiency I mean the capability to make oneself installers form source files, know 'by heart' all the different abbreviations used in terminal mode...
The problems that made me put down Fedora was
- no sound except PA playing back various types of system audio in mono through the inbuilt hardware (vlc, mp3 and all that stuff)
- qcackctl crashes always
- installing pd doesn't create an executable file that I would find
- F10 recognizes my interface and thanks to the tremendous help of the driver maintainer (Florian Faber) I am sure that it works however there is no way that I found to use it under any application.
In sum, I still look at my F10 partition at times but I'm waiting for the upgrades of other Linux installations which focus on sound / media that I just became aware of :
- 64studio : jack works out of the box, but other stuff is bad (monitor for example) - from a live CD boot
- AVLinux which is also about to upgrade - from the live CD at least Jack and other audio stuff was working out of the box.
Fedora? I'm not so sure anymore but these 2 distros look promising.
There is a good list here:
Best
Jurgen