Tracktion Software

jens · Post by **jens** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:40 pm

AD80 wrote:Palladium/TCPA

that's Windows/Microsoft/Intel etc.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:54 pm

Sorry I know I know. I just saw it used in a Linux thread and assumed it was related. My apologiez to all the pinguins out there.

valley · Post by **valley** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:35 pm

AD80 wrote:Sorry I know I know. I just saw it used in a Linux thread and assumed it was related.

It is. It's Microsoft's grand plan for eliminiating Linux, bedroom software programmers, and hardware companies they don't happen to like the looks of in one easy pass.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:42 pm

valley wrote:
It is. It's Microsoft's grand plan for eliminiating Linux, bedroom software programmers, and hardware companies they don't happen to like the looks of in one easy pass.

That sounds horrible.

valley · Post by **valley** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:54 pm

AD80 wrote:That sounds horrible.

It quite scares the willies out of me...

The purpose is basically to create an interdependency between OS and hardware such that they need to authenticate with each other at all stages of operation. If and hardware or software fails to report itself correctly or cannot give proper trusted credentials the system would lock down.

It'd potentially eliminate root kits and the like, and it'd make it tough as hell for viruses to exist, but then since getting code registered as 'trusted' would most likely come with monetary cost, it basically translates into a developer tax. A tax which free (both in speech and beer) software would find hard to pay.

Oh, and your multi-region dvd player, or CD drive capable of ripping audio in anything other than DRM form would not be welcome to the party either.

AD80 · Post by **AD80** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:10 am

Wow. Thanks for that explination.

Iain · Post by **Iain** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:54 pm

superstition wrote:Which distribution do you use?

Have you tried running Tracktion thru Wine?

no i havnt', does it work with wine ????
if so i'll give it a go, I develop with linux so i've a big
1GB RAM 3.8GHz box with unlimited disk/cd space, i've already
offered to help with the linux port but for the moment they
are just too busy.

valley · Post by **valley** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 8:58 pm

Iain wrote: no i havnt', does it work with wine ????

I couldn't get it to work but that was some time back and wine has probably moved on a lot since then.

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 9:23 pm

Sorry mates, but I was joking. Even IF wine would run Tracktion, you'd be unable to use JACK or achieve a low latency.

Sorry for disappointing you...