Turn-Key Linux Audio

gmaestro writes "The Turn-Key Linux Audio project at the Eastman Computer Music Center has released it's first instant linux audio workstation package. Simply download onto your Mandrake workstation, untar and type # ./install.sh."

Comments

surreal

[io333]

I've been waiting for a package like this for 4 years. I can't believe someone actually did it. Just one more application needs to arrive and I'll leave Windows behind forever. What is that application?

Does it really matter what my particular missing app is? Everyone that can't migrate yet has one. I suppose my point is this just goes to show that eventually all the missing apps will be there and then:

IT'S A FREE SOFTWARE WORLD BABY!

Notice the absence of music notation programs

[sadclown]

Linux has nothing to compare to Finale, Sibelius, or Score. This is the gaping hole in Linux audio software, and the reason most musicians cannot switch completely to Linux.
Lilypad, etc. are not professional quality notation tools.
WINE has trouble with non-text fonts like Maestro which Finale uses.

More programs should be this way

[GamezCore.com]

I know that the large frothing masses LIKE to worry about libraries and dependancy, but there are also a lot of us who like ease of use. With bandwidth and high capacity media so cheap these days, I believe most if not all programs should be self contained non-dependant entities. Just like Office for Mac's, one folder drag it over and run. Or even better, the Phoenix browser... fully self contained AND small. I think this is the future of software, and Linux should really jump on this if it wants to be a player in the desktop market. (not trolling, just looking for some discussion)

Re:drivers

[tomhudson]

I have to disagree on several points.

Not everybody markets to the same market. The only ways to increase market share are:

1. Price
2. Features
3. Promotion
4. FUD

If you are a board manufacturer, and you can move an extra 100,000 units by making sure that your components are linux-compatible without increasing your cost, you're going to do it.

It's nice to walk into a store and see motherboards that list linux as a supported OS. This wasn't the case 5 years ago. Watch what happens in the next 5 years.

Besides, 95% of the planet doesn't use Windows. 90% of the planet don't own a computer - and they are the prime breeding ground for linux. As for what you might have meant - "95% of computers run Windows" - that's never been true either.

I think sometime in the future chipset manufacturers - not motherboard manufacturers - are going to produce decent drivers.

Re:*Sigh*

[runderwo]

If only they would add decent wavetable synth support to Linux I would ditch Windows without thinking about it twice.

What were you having problems with? For sound cards without hardware MIDI, timidity seems to work great. If you have a MIDI card or daughtercard that you want to use, those work fine too; I use a Yamaha DB50XG on a Roland MPU-401AT ISA card that I control through a MIDI keyboard.

Perhaps if you were a bit more specific on the shortcomings, we could have a more engaging discussion.

Re:drivers

[tomhudson]

Well, since you brought it up ...

1. Windows failed to get control of the embedded computer space, so forget those cpus
2. Windows was never targeted at mainframes
3. While Windows will run on a Mac, who'd want to?
4. While Windows will run on a linux box, again, who'd want to?
5. Even in the Intel/PC space, Windows never had a 90% market share. It took forever for Microsoft to wean their customers from DOS, and by then alternatives were starting to crop up.