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Linux Audio Developers Conference

Posted by michael on from the ear-candy dept.

paulbd writes "This weekend sees the first Linux audio developers conference at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. Gathering together many members of the Linux Audio Developers mailing list and others, the conference will feature 2 days of in-depth technical presentations and demonstrations of many cutting edge Linux audio and MIDI applications." Desktoplinux.com has a related story about using Linux in a professional recording studio.

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  1. LADC? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think they should be renamed "Linux Audio Realtime Developers And Sound Symposium".

  2. Oh, man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I can just see it now: a thousand geeks walking around talking into their cell phones "Can you hear me now?"

  3. Oh, well. by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 3, Funny
    Ah... I remember the good ol' days when there was this operating system called BeOS. They were going to be in all kinds of high-end audio equipment. I remember getting excited that after being somewhat involved in the tightly-knit community of BeOS users and developers for a number of years, the software started to gain recognition in one area of its technical superiority over competing systems of the time. Then, when a number of high quality audio and graphics applications were being produced by some of the biggest names in the aforementioned subjects, they made an announcement that they were shifting focus to refrigerators with email access. And everything went into the trash. Developers couldn't distance themselves from this crap fast enough.

    With several more years of improvement, Linux and other free operating systems are starting to gain on the technical advantages present in that several year old operating system. I feel confident that given a few more years and the efforts of individuals and companies worldwide, Linux will soon be the operating system of choice for everything from coffee makers to the next generation space shuttle. So I'm happy to hear about this conference and all this exciting stuff.