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newmixman · Post by **newmixman** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:15 am

Hi Muse

Are you planning to release a Linux distro for a standard PC in the near future?
I, like others cant afford a spanking new receptor and could afford a distro supplied by yourself and purchase the PC bits to make a similar device but without the cost, I already have a vast collection of VST instruments (legit ones) and would like to migrate those to a PC based on your software.....anyone agree?

Regards

püRe · Post by **püRe** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:52 am

sounds excellent...I'd be certainly interested in this...

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:17 pm

There would be some problems affiliated with doing this. First of all part of the beauty of the Receptor is that its designed for live use and has an amazingly fast boot time. If you added in support for every sound card, proc, chipset, etc, etc. that would be completely lost. You also have the problem of having (or on a home built computer NOT having) the LCD display and front pannel controlls. So really the whole interface part of the software would have to be re-writen to remove that and compensate somehow. There is also the financial issues...they would have to invest alot of labor and time to development and support for other peoples hardware...which would drive prices higher than most would probably be willing to spend on such a product. I think that there is realy too much trouble in it for them to actually do it no matter how cool the idea is...I personaly would love it but I dont really think its feasable.

meister eder · Post by **meister eder** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 12:55 pm

Excuse my ignorance please: What is a distro?

HelgeG · Post by **HelgeG** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 1:16 pm

dr.wackler wrote: Excuse my ignorance please: What is a distro?

A distro is the name linux-geeks use for a pre-packaged linux version. SuSE 9.2 is a distro, knoppix is a distro, etc.

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:36 pm

Short for distribution.

Forever,

Kim.

WilliamK · Post by **WilliamK** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:46 pm

TechnoWeeniePas wrote:There would be some problems affiliated with doing this. First of all part of the beauty of the Receptor is that its designed for live use and has an amazingly fast boot time. If you added in support for every sound card, proc, chipset, etc, etc. that would be completely lost.

Indeed, but again, can't they just pick a few Sound-Cards and devices and the user just use those? It would still help things out...

Wk

meister eder · Post by **meister eder** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:50 pm

@ HelgeG, @ Jeez: Thanks.

TechnoWeeniePas · Post by **TechnoWeeniePas** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 10:29 pm

WilliamK wrote:
Indeed, but again, can't they just pick a few Sound-Cards and devices and the user just use those? It would still help things out...

Wk

That would be a workable solution but there would be alot of debate to which ones I think. I think the project is doable if they wanted to...but I dont think they want to put forth the effort or expence when they can still sell the Receptor without too much problem. Maybe once the Receptor sales start to dwindle down they will be willing to do it to help drum up new business but I think it is a ways off if it will ever happen

SpIdErWeB · Post by **SpIdErWeB** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:58 pm

Just few notes :

This is a Red Hat based distro. If you know enough in wine and linux, you can perhaps build your own 'Receptor', but that's not really interesting...

And the boot time is not really so amazing ???

The boot time is 65 seconds.
My other PC boot faster

Bye
Spid

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 2:29 am

SpIdErWeB wrote:And the boot time is not really so amazing ???

The boot time is 65 seconds.

I thought the boot time was 8 seconds?

Forever,

Kim.

SpIdErWeB · Post by **SpIdErWeB** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 5:44 am

not at me.

8 seconds is perhaps the reboot

Bye
Spid

WilliamK · Post by **WilliamK** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 11:57 am

My Windows-XP Hibernation is like 10 seconds, so I don't really care for Boot time.

Kim Lajoie · Post by **Kim Lajoie** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:11 pm

WilliamK wrote:My Windows-XP Hibernation is like 10 seconds, so I don't really care for Boot time.

You have to wait ten seconds? My iBook wakes in less than two seconds!

Forever,

Kim.

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