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  • VI Farms & Linux

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    I've been trying to find the best way to setup a VI farm, and the current options just don't seem that great (mac mini's, windows pcs, etc).. And then it hit me - why not farm VSL on Linux? Being that OS X is based on UNIX, it shouldn't be that difficult to port VI and the needed drivers for audio interfaces to work on a linux platform. Then, you'd have the flexibility of PC parts but the performance and reliability of a UNIX based system...

    Linux farming is pretty common in video production, but virtually non-existant in pro audio, so it would definately be an innovative step in the right direction - so why not, VSL?
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    cmC
    one missing link is a license control center for LINUX and this is mainly not a problem of UNIX or not but the GPL (clearly a license software cannot be published ...)
    several companies (and ambitous developers) tried to write a LINUX sampler and players ... not too successfully if my informations are good enough.
    for video LINUX systems are mostly dumb render-slaves (offline rendering)

    other point: why should we jump into a third platform (resp. 5th, because the 64-bit operating systems will have to count as seperate versions - programming-wise and for support)
    last point: too many flavours of LINUX out there, almost no common APIs, no standards at least for the most common distributions, lack of good audio-drivers, overwhelming version varieties ... finally unsupportable.

    sorry, christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
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    Aye.. well I knew it was wishfull thinking - but one can dream, eh? It's not that I don't love Macs - I just hate being tied down to so few configuration options with Mac Pro (esp. proccessor). Hopefully the rumors about an 8-core Mac Pro appearing this fall are true.

    Kyle