My friend Chris likes to pick on me for being a minimalist. He also notes that I hunt out new Linux distros like a rapist in a convent. (OK, so metaphors aren’t my thing…) Here’s some great stuff I’ve run across lately that I do not want to forget:
Sidux - bleeding-edge Debian [...]
I run Debian Etch at home. Etch is the stable release of Debian, and I enjoy having the stability that comes with running the…errm, “stable” flavor of Debian. However, I need to run the latest JACK audio server (currently 0.109.2), and that just isn’t gonna happen in Etch. So, I compile from [...]
I needed this recently, so I’m dropping it here.
www.pohunek.free.fr/
The purpose of this site is to provide the community with binary and source packages for Aldrin and Libzzub.
The only distributions supported at the moment are Debian (testing/unstable) and Ubuntu (current).
Packages are often updated in order to reflect the progress of the project between official releases.
Josh
I found this on the Linux Audio Users’ mailing list. It’s a very old post, so some of this might not work, but I want to try it this weekend, so I’m posting it here.
ecasound -b:64
-a:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 -i:rtnull
-a:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 -o:jack_alsa
-a:1 -el:analogueOsc,1,0,0,1,1 -km:2,1,1000,9,1 -ea:0 -km:1,0,200,17,1
-a:2 -el:analogueOsc,1,0,0,1,1 -km:2,1,1000,10,1 -ea:0 -km:1,0,200,18,1
-a:3 -el:analogueOsc,1,0,0,1,1 -km:2,1,1000,11,1 -ea:0 -km:1,0,200,19,1
-a:4 -el:analogueOsc,1,0,0,1,1 -km:2,1,1000,12,1 -ea:0 -km:1,0,200,20,1
-a:5 [...]
A recent post from a prolific internet musician Ken points out some of the issues with performing with a laptop:
I’m trying to baby this new Asus and I hope I get at least a few years out of it. I do sweat quite a bit when gigging though. I’m keenly aware that, one pull [...]