As has been mentioned MANY times, there are many independant labels out there. We run a small recording studio in our basement, Barkin' Beaver Records . Click on the link to Gnawed Trees and there's some absolutely free MP3's there. Share 'em with your friends. There's also Discipline Global Mobile, a new label from (primarily) Robert Fripp of King Crimson (if anyone out there is old enough to remember...:)
What's tricky is that we understand it's NOT the artists, but the gawd-awful industry they're in. It's tough for the band to make any money when they immediately go into debt to the label (with the RIAA way of doing business) before they even have anything recorded. Then, it's like the old "company towns" where you owe them for everything and they would take it out of your paycheck. The artists are starting to speak on this issue now and Robert Fripp is a very articulate and bright individual with some very sound opinions on the subject.
This has been a very touchy subject for us, and we hope that some will begin to listen to reason instead of being the normal spoiled rotten web-babies crying about not getting free stuff. I am all for freedom and accessability, but I'm also pro-eating and pro-income. As some artists create and post music for free, some will charge for the music because they HAVE TO EAT!!! The music IS their day job. Just as you code for pay (if that's your job), and I network for pay, so these guys create music for pay. I just ask that we all keep that in mind.
I have a Biostar M7MkE that runs RH6.2 just fine. I use a SCSI disk system and ignore the IDE in Linux. The M7MkA I originally had had some bus failures and the replacement was the M7MkE. I turned off the mobo sound and USB (not enough interrupts and Linux wouldn't see the sound card properly), and RH6.2 installed and runs really well. I'm using a SB PCI 128 card and a3dFX Voodoo3 3k agp video card. FYI, I can't get Windows to install to the IDE drive because of a driver issue!!! I think I'll just stick with Linux. As far as Biostar, the mobo seems pretty good, but the company is pretty useless. Manuals are impossible and support is non-existent.
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As has been mentioned MANY times, there are many independant labels out there. We run a small recording studio in our basement, Barkin' Beaver Records . Click on the link to Gnawed Trees and there's some absolutely free MP3's there. Share 'em with your friends. There's also Discipline Global Mobile, a new label from (primarily) Robert Fripp of King Crimson (if anyone out there is old enough to remember...:)
What's tricky is that we understand it's NOT the artists, but the gawd-awful industry they're in. It's tough for the band to make any money when they immediately go into debt to the label (with the RIAA way of doing business) before they even have anything recorded. Then, it's like the old "company towns" where you owe them for everything and they would take it out of your paycheck. The artists are starting to speak on this issue now and Robert Fripp is a very articulate and bright individual with some very sound opinions on the subject.
This has been a very touchy subject for us, and we hope that some will begin to listen to reason instead of being the normal spoiled rotten web-babies crying about not getting free stuff. I am all for freedom and accessability, but I'm also pro-eating and pro-income. As some artists create and post music for free, some will charge for the music because they HAVE TO EAT!!! The music IS their day job. Just as you code for pay (if that's your job), and I network for pay, so these guys create music for pay. I just ask that we all keep that in mind.
I have a Biostar M7MkE that runs RH6.2 just fine. I use a SCSI disk system and ignore the IDE in Linux. The M7MkA I originally had had some bus failures and the replacement was the M7MkE. I turned off the mobo sound and USB (not enough interrupts and Linux wouldn't see the sound card properly), and RH6.2 installed and runs really well. I'm using a SB PCI 128 card and a3dFX Voodoo3 3k agp video card. FYI, I can't get Windows to install to the IDE drive because of a driver issue!!! I think I'll just stick with Linux. As far as Biostar, the mobo seems pretty good, but the company is pretty useless. Manuals are impossible and support is non-existent.