Anyone have any experience on win2k/Debian dual-booting? Just how hard would it be to get an almost-risk-free system running that?
Yup, do it all the time. win2k/debian appears to be a far safer option than win98 (I've lost my hard disk twice to 98 but never to 2k). As long as things are backed up, it shouldn't be a problem.
wehey! good to hear... there's hope for the linux musician yet! doesn't Jenny Hopkins get up to this kind of stuff too? I'd love to hear more about what stuff, and how...
Sound config on it would be OSS, since I bought the drivers.Yummy.
Also not a problem... I use OSS on my fileserver (well, with all those disks it seemed silly not to use it as an mp3 jukebox too!) and that works fine.
How very, very nice. Planning to use an SQL object in PD to query FFT routines, hopefully for a bit of machine listening (Rowe, 2001) stuff. The idea would be to have small, well-defined samples stored in some kind of SQL place (PostgreS?), and have the routines from what I play (on shite keyboard) query them. A kind of AI sampler...Rowe wrote the neural network routines in C++ for MAC (yuk), but I reckon it could be ported to the PD environment (extremely well-commented .h), in C. Planning to learn that at the weekend...;~}
Cheers, David