The C note on a violin sounds different from the C note on a piano because of the timbre – Jag
Meanwhile in our universe …
A friend of mine Ashik, said he would be happy to help out in testing DIN in
FreeBSD. But it was not exactly FreeBSD but TrueOS[1] for (Update: Now called
Trident[2]), and he has been a regular user of it for quite sometime.
So he tried running DIN with JACK audio as back-end.
# jackd -R -d ossThe initial attempt by Ashik resulted in a core dump and with Jag’s help
analyzing the logs showed that it was a missing font.
I updated the script to pull sources from the latest SVN (since the new source
archive was not out yet) and asked Ashik to do a clean build. And on the next
run he got an UI …
Yes it is ALIVE!!! on a BSD and it was happily making all those sounds as
expected and this is probably the first time DIN ever ran on a BSD (at least the
first documented one), I would me more than happy if someone can point me a
previous instance of DIN running in BSD.
Now the long wait to get it packaged and pushed to FreeBSD Ports.
References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueOS
- http://www.project-trident.org/
- http://jackaudio.org/