Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:34:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Valeri Galtsev" <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: "Ralf Mardorf" <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD as a desktop system? Message-ID: <61192.128.135.52.6.1500474880.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20170719120357.45139b0c@archlinux.localdomain> References: <CAN7_dzeDRZvH_wqZFmq6vxC%2BAdxwc-inuV8BVVmevs0xVbTpag@mail.gmail.com> <1500440247.5678.8.camel@rocketmail.com> <CALeGphxRwZpsHxmCaSjqo_3onQaM9%2ByoatqSFzJCWa_FS8gZDQ@mail.gmail.com> <20170719094122.3541b41c@archlinux.localdomain> <20170719102854.041ac2e3a3d3faecae676993@sohara.org> <20170719120357.45139b0c@archlinux.localdomain>
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On Wed, July 19, 2017 5:03 am, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:28:54 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>or because the underlying sound system is not good enough > > I guess that is one reason, even on Linux MIDI jitter is an issue, but > there are at least some improvements, when using jackd with special ALSA > options. Apart from this I suspect FreeBSD can't compare to the Linux > real-time patch and that more pro-sumer, let alone pro-audio cards are > supported by Linux. > > However, professional audio, even hobby audio, is a nice and the OP > probably just wants to know, if FreeBSD is for servers only, or also a > reasonable OS for desktop usage, in the sense of e.g. office work. IOW > we shouldn't capture this thread for a discussion about pro-audio. > > I only wanted to point out that _no_ OS is superb in all domains. And thanks to that we, sysadmins, have our jobs ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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