Linux-Based Musical Keyboard Workstation Debuts

Henry G. writes "Lionstracs of Italy has released the Mediastation X-76 music workstation. It runs Red Hat and KDE 3.1. The base model features a 1.67 Ghz Athlon, 512MB RAM, 80GB HD, CDRW/DVD-ROM, 8.2" LCD, and a host of other things. Full specs can be found here and pictures can be found here. To this submitter, it looks more like a keyboardized computer than a computerized keyboard."

Comments

A piano keyboard for input?

[gpinzone]

For playing music, it's the bomb. However, the only thing I can type in OpenOffice is "FACE"

Re:A piano keyboard for input?

[jawschlech]

CABBAGE, actually, is the longest word you can write with musical tones. And Baggage. Face a baggage cabbage--look, whole sentences. The possibilities are virtually endless!

Re:A piano keyboard for input?

[phraktyl]

Well, according to /usr/dict/words on a Solaris machine, and skipping the one-letter words, you can create:

abbe, abc, abed, accede, ace, ad, adage, add, , dded, age, babe, bad, bade, badge, bag, baggage, be, bead, bed, bee, beef, beg, cab, cabbage, cafe, cage, cede, cf, dab, dad, dead, deaf, , ecade, deed, deface, deed, deface, ebb, edge, efface, egg, facade, face, fad, fade, fag, fed, fee, feed, gab, gad, gaff, gaffe, gag, gage, gee

You could write a thesis with those!

Re:A piano keyboard for input?

[Anonymous Coward]

This _is_ a computer we're talking about, so, uh... "Face a baggage cabbage, Babbage!"

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Re:A piano keyboard for input?

[Mr_Icon]

Well, you could, arguably, write something in C#.

Re:A piano keyboard for input?

[micromoog]

Dad bagged a deaf babe.
Egg a facade; deface!
Deb acceded a bad deed.

Already Slashdotted!!

[ericdano]

Man, 3 comments and the site is down. :-(

Re:Already Slashdotted!!

[NightWulf]

The funny part is this line "This Website is powered by PostNuke." I guess slashdot is now more powerful than a nuke?

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let's get this straight

[Anonymous Coward]

in the rest of the world, it's a computerized keyboard

in soviet russia, it's a keyboardized computer

all clear now?

Linux-Based Musical . . .

[Antisthenes]

Thanks to my ill-behaved crappy Windows scanner software that stuck an annoying window in front of Mozilla, I only saw the first half of the headline, which read:

Linux-Based Musical

And I thought that a LotR musical would be bad enough...

Notice the webhosting software

[Dunark]

"This Website is powered by PostNuke"

I suppose it's appropriate if you're gonna be slashdotted.

sites down(/.ed)

[FuShock]

Maybe they were hosting it off one of thier linux keyboards.

A new record!

[twoslice]

I don't think there has ever been an article that had more than 3 icons? With 6 icons - we have a new record!

Re:Man....

[rlafflick]

how come this is modded -1 insightful. Shouldn't that be inciteful?