threedegree wrote:
> 
> is there any OS that works better for Csound??
> Which is the fastest and which is the most reliable?
> thanks

You like starting OS wars, do you? ;-)

I presume, from the subject line, that you are specifically asking about
OS's for PC boxes. 

Fastest? I don't think it matters that much. Most of the performance in
Csound depends on pure CPU performance, whenever you're running
something complex, where number-crunching becomes the bottleneck, as
opposed to disk activity. This is independent of the operating system.

Reliable? If you mean to ask which OS is more reliable, and not whether
csound itself runs more reliably on a certain OS, than that question is
probably not specific to this list. I'll just say that most people
accept that  Linux is far more robust than any of the Windows variants.
But this may not matter much, if your Windows setup happens to be
dedicated to always running the same apps, in a combination that happens
not to crash for you.

Personally, I have switched from DOS/Windows to Linux for my
computer-music experiments. The reason for the switch was that I noticed
that the availablity of most of the research-oriented computer-music
packages was better on Linux. After all, NextStep, Sun,  etc,  are
basically Unix, and therefore the Linux ports are easy to do, and are
less foreign then dos/windows ports of these softwares, where some
freatures might be missing.


    --  Larry Troxler --  lt@westnet.com  --  Patterson, NY USA  --