Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:34:17 +0200 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Professional audio - Was: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <20170719123417.6783aa7b@archlinux.localdomain>
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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.
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