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Ableton for ubuntu ? when?

hey
is Ubuntu the best Linux version?

I've just had an urge to try Linux out - never bothered before but I might give it a shot

which is the best?

"Best" for what purpose?

Ubuntu is probably the smoothest just-boot-it-and-have-a-decent-desktop.

Ubuntu Studio should be available soon. It's Ubuntu optimised for musicians.

There's heaps of dists out there, finding the one that's best for you can take a while.

Personally I'm a Linux From Scratch fan... but that's just how I roll.

bragi0 wrote:"Best" for what purpose?

Ubuntu is probably the smoothest just-boot-it-and-have-a-decent-desktop.

Ubuntu Studio should be available soon. It's Ubuntu optimised for musicians.

There's heaps of dists out there, finding the one that's best for you can take a while.

Personally I'm a Linux From Scratch fan... but that's just how I roll.

I'm having probs - I got it to boot from the CD (ubuntu) then chose "install" and it went through the motions then hung on the time and date thing so I restarted

now it hangs every time I try and boot from the CD

can I just copy the folder in this ISO to the NTFS partition and boot from that with something like EasyBCD's NEOGrub?

i havent tried ubuntu yet, currently been using suse 10(+). energyxt2 is out now for linux, but havent used it fully yet. ableton would seriously take giant leaps forward if they ported live for linux... linux is the future. i would migrate 100% to linux if there was:

1. a realtime mpeg2 capture codec
2. ableton live

windows vista is complete horse$hit. xgl has been kicking the ass out of apple and microsoft:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3054020719

Dj-Grobe wrote:Ableton for ubuntu ? when?

Let's see: People have been asking for Linux support for how long? 4 years? Settle down and wait a bit longer, eh?

I use XP and OSX. I know both of them pretty well. Both have their good and bad points but they generally (99% of the time) run everything I need flawlessly.

Whats the advantage of Linux?

its free

jaffadj wrote:its free

and open source

but there's gotta be more reasons than that

it really does look like it's the OS for tweakers though

people who just want to get on and make music or whatever might be better off just sticking to the big guns

Machinate- do you know something we don't????

nah, not at all - I don't think Live will EVER come out for Linux. Hence the wink. Just like there might still be people waiting for the g5 laptop

K. Just checking. I believe the wink was open to interpretation.

It's too bad Apple is a hardware company. I'd dump Windows in a heartbeat if I could (legally and reliably) run OSX on any machine.

Oh well.... I'll keep dreaming.

anyone know about openSUSE?

so it's free, yet i cant actually use any of my software on it...

Machinate wrote:nah, not at all - I don't think Live will EVER come out for Linux. Hence the wink. Just like there might still be people waiting for the g5 laptop

Give it another 5 years....

Linux IMO will win the serious audio developers eventually. OSX and Windows are already seriously bloated for pure audio work, it will only get worse as the OS gets as simple and candy coated as a video game to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Already it's a simple fact that MIDI is tighter on an Atari, and I really don't see any indication that either MS or Apple are at all worried about that, it's been like that for years.