<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello and welcome! I'm quite glad to see you considering Linux for your</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">music (after having to sit out of your Audio Cubes workshop in Vancouver</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">because I only had a Linux box ;-). But in all seriousness, it's wonderful</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to see your name appear on this list!</div></blockquote><div>yes the owner of Percussa did not feel there was enough musicians who used Linux to justify a port</div><div>also his initial work was all done in Max/MSP so that determined the platforms AudioCubes interfaced with</div><div>but I'm sorry we didn't get a chance to meet in Vancouver! :(</div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">First, as was recently made mention on this list, (under the Puse audio</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">conversation) Ubuntu PPC is still in existence, but only as a community</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">project rather than an official release. More info can be found here:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=427714">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=427714</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">But that unfortunately means there's no RT kernel for PPC (though the rest</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of Intrepid doesn't fair much better).</div></blockquote><div>OK good to know...I saw the post but thought it might be an underdeveloped resurrection of an old Ubuntu branch</div><div>there are so many of those in existence that break away and wither but I'm glad to hear that it is thriving </div><div>I have an old iMac DV that I will do an install on and see what I can do with it</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">As for the mini9, I've never owned or touched one, but from the specs on</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dell's website, you should have no troubles with it from the setup you</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">describe. You may find that if you get into quadraphonic or octophonic</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tracks in Ardour the processor may be less than what you need. </div></blockquote><div>quad might be a possibility but I tend to travel with a couple of iMic's</div><div>since my Firebox is kinda heavy when added to all my other equipment</div><div>so I'm restricted to stereo outs for now</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> But,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">provided tracks remain stereo or mono, you should have no troubles working</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">with multiple tracks. Another limitation you may find with the mini is the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">harddrive space - the specs say up to 32GB, but some of the customer reviews</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">mention theirs only had 8GB and that's probably too small for lengthy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">high-quality multi-track audio sessions.</div></blockquote><div>agreed...I've purchased a Runcore 32G SSD to swap into my mini9 for this very reason</div><div>I can also keep sounds on an external drive OR (here's something I love about the new slew of netbooks:) buy a 16G SD ($20!) card and use that for sound data </div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> Baudline has very little overhead,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">so that part of the setup should be simple. </div></blockquote><div>OK -- I'll be running audio into RT</div><div>sorry but offhand how much latency is there on a NON-RT Ubuntu kernel?</div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> It would probably benefit you</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to strip down your system to the bare essentials (turn off the print server,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">use a lightweight window manager, etc...) since it sounds like this will be</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a dedicated audio box.</div></blockquote><div>mostly audio and some admin work</div><div>the battery is way better than my PB G4</div><div>and the WiFi card is much more sensitive than my PB as well</div><div>this is a plus in hotels with weak WiFi routers</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> You may also want to take a read through: <a href="http://www">http://www</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">.ubuntumini.com or this google group:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/UbuntuMini">http://groups.google.com/group/UbuntuMini</a> for some useful info.</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">the Ubunumini list is helpful for Linux issues but not so much for audio related questions</font></div></blockquote>but after I swap in my 32G SSD I'll load up all the audio drivers needed, Baudline and Ardour then report back my findings
<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Cheers!</div><div>KIM</div></body></html>