From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jul 19 10:37:04 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B01DDC7907E for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:37:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm14-vm5.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm14-vm5.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.96.193]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 306B8753CC for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:37:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s2048; t=1500460453; bh=nCVkCmjdYGlc9yuQDk/2zFOCfjBirOn3i0C4DqKisyg=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:From:Subject; b=RY4E2AVIDl4ftZcD3o9sgUVeAAet6Vez/4LEavADlJfdGHv4eO7wklc9BpVKWjfiHeVbnri1FKIA+oNtizjTHmC2un+2+3ZU0uneQqHKniYPKOJKmLGwdfNebe29DecDh10TpRt/bjpQh5VpvmSy5fCuKEABFzf9RC5v7NsCtmdheucnedZxCjx3y+TKWpblrRX3lzN2YH9hRtEy5p86x3MF55Hj6ImdAuG/Ed7D7vECMi8lKXBS7EOJO34UepfT/1oFJ0ul/J9DwMj9jIkhz7SGn4ASZco648+n0ngvFMzFXQ6HZRpPwEc4mi0B/hGTs/Y39e4MlvmBrq1ApHDmqQ== Received: from [212.82.98.58] by nm14.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jul 2017 10:34:13 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.82] by tm11.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jul 2017 10:34:13 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp119.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Jul 2017 10:34:13 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 270838.15385.bm@smtp119.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 6MljB28VM1k5HFP8S4irrABYidRgB.jGK6hgWio1Y_Q5fBe hhKcfw1E_jcKp8CAPsMH5aDPFPGOCVsnj1MigubyO7Ei.So4zGtTIWSRfZnj aKOw02XllM9wVd3lR2hsQ8dJuqOpXjBxoT3EREYDke8byTwI8x03H6tha.WE Eet1R24N6mbOYV2GjZWNI_MeHxavRD3q5r3vooWEbzpkMX41rK_OVR.5AVNl EXGjmA3Ykn_BX8ehlsLoDt1CMXxTZZSBksZU7_2XeC0_0yI.zVMpHD74f8V. gZ2_NpPEZfhBZaabHAh9fKb6x0Q3YUE9PX6sfBgVskyuUEvYNMj6H29BUVG2 Dg6JbkyfyQPw_EQfiTejLIc2dQaQn1r1rcEMUi5vhKy0KVCYzFSYvinLbKus hNM7uYRTYdkPKQRUgbA8QCwMdHXAMEtBbAUb_Xxpwbu6yw8HBMU0zI_1Qg8Z .F7eXzS1tZXBB5AidNGG2pwuG_0UKzrd9IexGB6zQwmsoFXA6Vkml_YkjOMS Nu_70hjC0UMN1kQQrUxDBgCxGe7p6pDLJZsIO7Dy2qvLEZPCfe6pGnK5co.h XkOO9tlI0Vl5HNWGBCEwrLCSm5ho- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:34:17 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf To: FreeBSD questions Subject: Professional audio - Was: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <20170719123417.6783aa7b@archlinux.localdomain> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.0git72 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:37:04 -0000 On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:05:07 +0300, Heikki Lindholm wrote: >On 19.07.2017 12:55, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: >> However, I've got holidays and time to follow hints, how to set up a >> pro-audio FreeBSD machine. > >What would the point when Linux has better real-time behaviour >(RT_PREEMPT), better device support, better audio API for the purpose, >Firewire audio device support (if needed), better filesystem (XFS), >better application support, etc? Unless you want to help in fbsd audio >development, I don't think it makes much sense, or does it? I've got neither the abilities to help much in FreeBSD audio development, nor the time. I didn't use FreeBSD audio since several years, so my assumptions might be wrong. Seemingly I'm not mistaken ;). Btw. I guess the file system doesn't matter at all. On Linux use a SSD mounted with noatime or even a SATA HDD mounted with relatime and use any extFS or perhaps for Linux unusual other FS you want, with hundreds of short recording snippets, on a halfway new machine. I'm using just dual-core around 2 GHz with 8 GiB, while even 4 GiB already work. Newer SATA is better than older SATA, but even this unlikely matters.