Re: MAO on FreeBSD

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 11:54 AM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:23:25 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> >What is MAO, if I may ask?
>
> musique assistée par ordinateur
> computer-assisted music
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2022 00:25:33 +0200, white-wolf wrote:
> >I'm not sure of the version of FreeBSD for a MAO workstation. [snip]
> >It's destined to à professionnal usage [snip]
>
> Professional as in self-employed or sponsored as in university employee?
> For doing this ordinary mortals are using proprietary operating systems
> for good reasons.
>
> I've got a Linux audio workstation, as well as a forbidden fruit audio
> workstation and was a professional audio engineer. As far as I know
> only a few spoiled intellectuals are using FLOSS operating systems for
> professional work.
>
> It probably depends on what you want to do, but for most usecases in
> this domain FreeBSD and Linux aren't suitable to make a living, since
> the software for those FLOSS operating systems is way behind
> proprietary solutions.
>

What about if one doesn't have the "budget" for those proprietary solutions?
I suppose FLOSS works too.
@white-wolf <white-wolf@ovh.fr> can as well start with Ubuntustudio
<https://ubuntustudio.org/> . I have never trusted FreeBSD as a Desktop OS.
Quite limiting!
I use FreeBSD solely for servers.


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