From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 13: 0:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229FA37BD75 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 13:00:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA17179; Wed, 24 May 2000 20:59:09 +0200 Message-ID: <392C09E6.770D4CB3@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 18:57:10 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Organization: i-clue interactive GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: GUILLAUME Julien Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: And what about music ? References: <57F400E054E7D211AEF40004AC36979DEDE8F3@infcab22.cus.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG GUILLAUME Julien wrote: > OK, Free BSD is a real Unix and a powerful server, but what about music ? Well, Peugeot builds wonderful cars, but what about music? (Pun intended.) > Can current sound softwares such as Cubase, Cakewalk, Acid or Soundforge be > run on that OS ? No. > Otherwise is it reasonably possible to build efficient > drivers for these ? No. > Thanks in advance for your help. You're welcome. Look at it this way: if you already decided which application to use, use the operating system the application developer said you should. On the other hand, if you're courageous, you may struggle into the wonderland of Unix. Less comfort, less crashes. Some sound software exists -- although probably not at the point-and-click level it seems you are used to. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message